by admin | May 11, 2021 | Criminal Procedure, Georgia
(a) The following oath shall be administered to witnesses in criminal cases: “Do you solemnly swear or affirm that the evidence you shall give to the court and jury in the matter now pending before the court shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Criminal Procedure, Georgia
At the trial of an inmate of a penal institution for the crime of mutiny, any other inmate not included in the same indictment shall be a competent witness, and the infamy of his character and of the crime of which he has been convicted shall be exceptions to his...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Criminal Procedure, Georgia
The trial of inmates escaping from a state or county correctional institution shall take place in the superior court of the county in which the escape occurs, and inmates so escaping shall remain in the correctional institution after their apprehension and shall be...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Criminal Procedure, Georgia
A case not reached at the trial term stands over as continued.OCGA § 17-8-38
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Criminal Procedure, Georgia
When a court grants a continuance of a pending case for whatever cause, the continuance shall extend until the next term of court only.OCGA § 17-8-37
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Criminal Procedure, Georgia
The judges of the superior, state, and city courts shall, upon the continuance of any case, enter the date of the continuance upon their dockets opposite the case and in open court make public announcement of the continuance.OCGA § 17-8-36
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