2020 Georgia Code
Title 17 - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 5 - Searches and Seizures
Article 2 - Searches With Warrants
§ 17-5-25. Execution of Search Warrant Generally
The search warrant shall be executed within ten days from the time of issuance. If the warrant is executed, the duplicate copy shall be left with any person from whom any instruments, articles, or things are seized; or, if no person is available, the copy shall be left in a conspicuous place on the premises from which the instruments, articles, or things were seized. Any search warrant not executed within ten days from the time of issuance shall be void and shall be returned to the court of the judicial officer issuing the same as "not executed."
(Ga. L. 1966, p. 567, § 6.)
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Information must be under 11 days old.
- Information submitted to the judicial officer as probable cause for the issuance of a search warrant should not be more than ten days old. 1969 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 69-172.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 68 Am. Jur. 2d, Searches and Seizures, §§ 236, 237, 299 et seq.
C.J.S.- 79 C.J.S., Searches and Seizures, §§ 182 et seq., 193 et seq., 231 et seq., 251 et seq.
ALR.
- Preventing, obstructing, or delaying service or execution of search warrant as contempt, 39 A.L.R. 1354.
Propriety of execution of no-knock search warrant, 59 A.L.R.6th 311.
