2023 CODE OF GEORGIA
Title 24 - EVIDENCE (§§ 24-1-1 — 24-99-3)
Chapter 13 - SECURING ATTENDANCE OF WITNESSES AND PRODUCTION AND PRESERVATION OF EVIDENCE (§§ 24-13-1 — 24-13-154)
Article 1 - GENERALLY (§§ 24-13-1 — 24-13-7)
Section 24-13-1 - Freedom of witnesses from arrest

Universal Citation:
GA Code § 24-13-1 (2023)
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A witness shall not be arrested on any civil process while attending any court to which he or she is subpoenaed or otherwise required to attend as a witness or while going to or returning from such court. An officer who holds such witness imprisoned after seeing his or her subpoena or being satisfied of the fact that such person was a witness shall be liable for false imprisonment.

Added by 2011 Ga. Laws 52,§ 2, eff. 1/1/2013.


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