O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 38-2-1074 (2019)

Remission or suspension of sentence; modification of type of discharge by Governor

✓ 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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(a) Any authority competent to convene, for the command in which the accused is serving or assigned, a court of the kind that imposed the sentence may remit or suspend any part or amount of the unexecuted part of any sentence, including, but not limited to, all uncollected forfeitures, other than a sentence approved by the Governor.

(b) The Governor may, for good cause, substitute an administrative form of discharge for a discharge or dismissal executed in accordance with the sentence of a court-martial.

History

Code 1981, § 38-2-1074, enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 753, § 1/HB 98. U.S. Code. - For similar provision in

Uniform Code of Military Justice, see 10 U.S.C. § 874.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 53A Am. Jur. 2d, Military and Civil Defense, §§ 223, 227.