O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 38-2-1131 (2019)

Perjury

✓ 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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Any person subject to this article is guilty of perjury and shall be punished as a court-martial may direct who in a judicial proceeding or in a course of justice willfully and corruptly:

(1) Upon a lawful oath or in any form allowed by law to be substituted for an oath, gives any false testimony material to the issue or matter of inquiry; or

(2) In any declaration, certificate, verification, or statement under penalty of perjury, subscribes any false statement material to the issue or matter of inquiry.

History

Code 1981, § 38-2-1131, enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 753, § 1/HB 98.

Annotations

Cross references. - Statute of limitations, § 38-2-437.

U.S. Code. - For similar provision in Uniform Code of Military Justice, see 10 U.S.C. § 931.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 53A Am. Jur. 2d, Military, and Civil Defense, § 212. 60A Am.

Jur. 2d, Perjury, § 1 et seq. C.J.S. - 70 C.J.S., Perjury, § 1 et seq.