O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 9-2-29 (2019)

Plaintiff in penal action

✓ 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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If no special officer is authorized to be the plaintiff in a penal action,

the state, the Governor, the Attorney General, or a prosecuting attorney may be the plaintiff.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 3178; Code 1868, § 3189; Code 1873, § 3254; Code 1882, § 3254; Civil Code 1895, § 4933; Civil Code 1910, § 5510; Code 1933, § 3-103.

Annotations

Cross references. For corresponding provision relating to criminal procedure, § 17-1-2.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS When informer may prosecute action. - Qui tam action cannot be brought and prosecuted in name of informer unless a right thus to sue is distinctly given by statute. O’Kelly v. Athens Mfg. Co., 36 Ga. 51, 1867 Ga. LEXIS 3 (1867). Informer has no vested right to forfeiture. - Informer who commences a

qui tam action under a penal statute does not acquire thereby a vested right to the forfeiture. Robison v. Beall, 26 Ga. 17, 1858 Ga. LEXIS 260 (1858); Hargroves v. Chambers, 30 Ga. 580, 1860 Ga. LEXIS 148 (1860).

RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. 1A C.J.S., Actions, §§ 1, 74 et seq., 83. 7A C.J.S., Attorney General, § 65 et seq.