O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-2-45 (2019)

Fraud or false entries by sheriffs and deputies; penalties

✓ 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 sheriff, deputy sheriff, or other person performing the duties of the office of sheriff who knowingly and fraudulently makes any false entry or return in connection with any matter arising under this article or who fraudulently conspires with any person or persons to defraud any other person or persons through this article shall be guilty of a felony and shall be removed from office and be permanently disqualified from holding any public office in this state and shall be punished by imprisonment for not less

than one nor more than ten years.

History

(Ga. L. 1917, p. 108, § 85; Code 1933, § 60-9904.)

Annotations

Cross references. - Forgery and fraudulent practices generally, Ch. 9, T. 16.