Affray

  1. Law
  2. Georgia Code
  3. Crimes and Offenses
  4. Offenses Against Public Order and Safety
  5. Offenses Against Public Order
  6. Affray

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  1. An affray is the fighting by two or more persons in some public place to the disturbance of the public tranquility.
  2. A person who commits the offense of affray is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Laws 1833, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 811; Code 1863, § 4401; Ga. L. 1865-66, p. 233, § 2; Code 1868, § 4442; Code 1873, § 4515; Code 1882, § 4515; Penal Code 1895, § 355; Penal Code 1910, § 361; Code 1933, § 26-5303; Code 1933, § 26-2603, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 12 Am. Jur. 2d, Breach of Peace and Disorderly Conduct, § 17 et seq. 53A Am. Jur. 2d, Mobs and Riots, §§ 6, 9.

C.J.S.

- 2A C.J.S., Affray, § 1 et seq.

ALR.

- Sufficiency of evidence to establish criminal participation by individual involved in gang fight or assault, 24 A.L.R.4th 243.


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