2020 Georgia Code
Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses
Chapter 10 - Offenses Against Public Administration
Article 5 - Offenses Related to Judicial and Other Proceedings
§ 16-10-96. Impersonating Another in the Course of an Action, Proceeding, or Prosecution
Any person who shall falsely represent or impersonate another and in such assumed character answer as a witness to interrogatories or do any other act in the course of any action, proceeding, or prosecution or in any other way, matter, or thing, whereby the person so impersonated or represented, or any other person, might suffer damage, loss, or injury shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by confinement for not less than one year nor more than five years.
(Laws 1833, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 822; Code 1863, § 4464; Code 1868, § 4508; Code 1873, § 4596; Code 1882, § 4596; Penal Code 1895, § 666; Penal Code 1910, § 711; Code 1933, § 38-9901.)
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Former Code 1933, § 38-9901 (see now O.C.G.A. § 16-10-96) was extremely broad and all inclusive and, provided only that the person so personated or represented might suffer damage, loss, or injury, the statute applied whether the true identity of the impersonator was discovered before, during, or after arraignment, trial, and conviction on other charges. 1954-56 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 128.
