O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 24-13-153 (2019)

Use of testimony

✓ 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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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.

History

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

Annotations

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, 1854 Ga. LEXIS 59, 15 Ga. 423 (1854).