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O.C.G.A. § 17-8-51 — Admissibility of testimony of inmates in trials for crime of mutiny | Georgia Code

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TITLE 17 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

Section 8. Trial, 17-8-1 through 17-8-76.

ARTICLE 3 CONDUCT OF PROCEEDINGS

17-8-51. Admissibility of testimony of inmates in trials for crime of mutiny.

At the trial of an inmate of a penal institution for the crime of mutiny, any other inmate not included in the same indictment shall be a competent witness, and the infamy of his character and of the crime of which he has been convicted shall be exceptions to his credit only.

(Laws 1833, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 840; Code 1863, § 4563; Code 1868, § 4583; Code 1873, § 4677; Code 1882, § 4677; Penal Code 1895, § 331; Penal Code 1910, § 336; Code 1933, § 26-4803; Code 1933, § 26-9903, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.)

Cross references.

- Mutiny generally, § 16-10-54.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Bussey v. State, 202 Ga. App. 483, 414 S.E.2d 710 (1992).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Propriety of jury instruction regarding credibility of witness who has been convicted of a crime, 9 A.L.R.4th 897.

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