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O.C.G.A. § 24-6-605

Judge as witness

Code 1981, § 24-6-605, enacted by Ga

foreign language speaking defendant, 79 A.L.R.4th 1102.

Admissibility of testimony concerning extrajudicial statements made to, or in presence of, witness through interpreter — state cases, 97 A.L.R.6th 567.

Admissibility of testimony concerning extrajudicial statements made to, or in presence of, witness through an interpreter — federal cases, 91 A.L.R. Fed. 2d 187.

The judge presiding at the trial shall not testify in that trial as a witness. No objection need be made in order to preserve this issue.

Current official text: Official Code of Georgia Annotated (LexisNexis). Digitized from the Internet Archive scan of the OCGA. Reproduced from public-domain Georgia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.