O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 17-6-18 (2019)

Amendment of bonds and giving of new security

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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All bonds taken under requisition of law in the course of a judicial proceeding may be amended and new security given if necessary.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 3434; Code 1868, § 3454; Code 1873, § 3505; Code 1882, § 3505; Civil Code 1895, § 5123; Civil Code 1910, § 5707; Code 1933, § 81-1204.

Annotations

Cross references. - Corresponding provision relating to civil procedure, § 9-10-131. Amendment of bail in magistrate court proceedings, Uniform Rules for the Magistrate Courts, Rule 23.4.

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Authority to set and amend bonds. - Once the clerk of the superior court properly files an indictment or once a valid accusation is entered, the superior court has exclusive jurisdiction over the case, including all bond issues, unless the

court invokes the court’s authority to delegate jurisdiction to the magistrate court under O.C.G.A. § 15-1-9.1(e) or O.C.G.A. § 17-16-1(h). 1997 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 97-19.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 12 Am. Jur. 2d, Bonds, § 1 et seq. C.J.S. - 11 C.J.S., Bonds, § 1.

ARTICLE 2 SURETIES

U.S. Code. - Sureties, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 46(e).

PART 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

Cross references. - Suretyship generally, T. 10, C. 7.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 2022–2023 · leading case: Phillips v. Jackson, Judge, 877 S.E.2d 185 (Ga. 2022).

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Phillips v. Jackson, Judge, 877 S.E.2d 185 (Ga. 2022). · cites it 4× “” OCGA § 17-6-18. The state court, then, had authority to modify Phillips’s bond, including by removing all conditions other than his appearance in court.”

Gay v. Jackson, Judge, 883 S.E.2d 349 (Ga. 2023). · cites it 12× “(citing OCGA § 17-6-18), and if the state court declined to do so, the petitioner could have sought an interlocutory appeal, see id.”

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