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2018 Georgia Code 24-13-153 | Car Wreck Lawyer

TITLE 24 EVIDENCE

Section 13. Securing Attendance of Witnesses and Production and Preservation of Evidence, 24-13-1 through 24-13-154.

ARTICLE 7 PERPETUATION OF TESTIMONY

24-13-153. Use of testimony.

Testimony taken in the proceedings contemplated under Code Section 24-13-150 shall be used only from the necessity of the case, but in such case may be used against all persons, whether parties to the proceeding or not.

(Code 1981, §24-13-153, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Editor's notes.

- In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, decisions under former Orig. Code 1863, § 3043, former Code 1868, § 3055, former Code 1873, § 3110, former Code 1882, § 3110, former Civil Code 1895, § 3961, former Civil Code 1910, § 4558, former Code 1933, § 38-1304, and former O.C.G.A. § 24-10-153 are included in the annotations for this Code section.

Witness available.

- When a witness was alive and capable of examination at the time of trial, the testimony could not be read. Booker v. Booker, 20 Ga. 777 (1856)(decided under former law), compare, Howard v. Crawford, 15 Ga. 423 (1854).

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