O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 9-10-159 (2019)

Legislator attending General Assembly excused as witness; deposition in civil case

✓ 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 summoned as a witness in any case shall be excused by the judge from attending the court by reason of his attendance as a legislator in the General Assembly. In all civil cases it shall be the right of either party thereto to take the deposition, as provided by law, of any person desired to be used as a witness in the case who is a member of the General Assembly when the session of the General Assembly conflicts with the session of the court in which such case is to be tried.

History

Ga. L. 1905, p. 93, § 2; Civil Code 1910, § 5712; Code 1933, § 81-1407.

Annotations

Cross references. Corresponding provision relating to criminal procedure, § 17-8-28.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 17 Am. Jur. 2d, Continuance, §§ 10 et seq., 80 et seq.

C.J.S. 17 C.J.S., Continuances, § 70.