O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-14-10 (2019)

Search for property where defendant has no permanent abode; venue of prosecution

✓ 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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When any person who violates Code Section 44-14-8, 44-14-9, or 44-14-11 has no permanent place of abode in this state, search may be made in any county into which or through which the property has been carried. Upon the failure to find the property upon which to levy, prosecution may be had against such person in any such county; and such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

History

Ga. L. 1918, p. 262, § 3; Code 1933, § 67-9904.

Annotations

Editor’s notes. Ga. L. 1962, p. 156, § 1, provides that any provision of Code Sections 44-14-1,

44-14-2, 44-14-4, 44-14-7 through 44-1412, 44-14-100, and 44-14-160, and Arts. 2 and 3, Ch. 14, of this title which conflicts with T. 11 shall yield to and be superseded by T. 11. See Code Section 11-10-103.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 21 Am. Jur. 2d, Criminal Law, § 542. C.J.S. 92A C.J.S., Venue, § 91. ALR. Validity, construction, and application

of criminal provisions of statute relating expressly to conditional or installment sales of personal property, 129 A.L.R. 1077.