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).