A coconspirator may be relieved from the effects of Code Section 16-4-8 if he can show that before the overt act occurred he withdrew his agreement to commit a crime.
(Code 1933, § 26-3202, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1; Ga. L. 1969, p. 857, § 14.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 16 Am. Jur. 2d, Conspiracy, § 27.
Withdrawal from or Abandonment of Criminal Enterprise, 8 POF2d 231.
C.J.S.- 15A C.J.S., Conspiracy, § 150 et seq.
ALR.
- What is "infamous" offense within constitutional or statutory provision in relation to presentment or indictment by grand jury, 24 A.L.R. 1002.
Substitution or attempted substitution of another for one under sentence as a criminal offense, 28 A.L.R. 1381.
Imprisonment as constituting withdrawal from conspiracy, 100 A.L.R.6th 335.