Time Elapsed Between Injury and Death

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In order to be a homicide punishable under this article, death need not have occurred within a year and a day from the date of the injury alleged to have caused such death.

(Code 1981, §16-5-4, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 719, § 1.)

Editor's notes.

- Ga. L. 1991, p. 719, § 2, not codified by General Assembly, provides: "It is the intent of this Act to make statutory the ruling of the Supreme Court of Georgia that the year and a day rule referred to herein is not the law of Georgia."

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Lang v. State, 344 Ga. App. 623, 812 S.E.2d 16 (2018).


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