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An Act to reform, amend, and consolidate the penal laws of the State of Georgia. 1833 143 (1833)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0249 and id is 1 raw text is: PENAL CODE. PENAL CODE. AN ACT to reform, amend, and consolidate the penal laws of the State.of Georgia. SEc. 1. Be it enacted- by the Senate and House of Represen- tatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the existing code of the penal laws of this state, shall continue and remain in full force until the first day of June next; at which time, the following Code of Penal Laws shall be in fall force and operation in this State. FIRST DIVISION. Persons capable qf committing Crimes. SEC. 1. A crime or misdemeanor shall COilsist in a violation of a public law, in the commission of which there shall be an union or joint operation of act And ititention; or criminal negli- gence. SEC. 2. Intention 1vill be manifested by the circumstances connected with the perpetration of the offence, and the sound mind and discretion of the person accused. SEC. 3. A person shall be considered of sound mind, who is neither an idiot, a lunatic, or afflicted by insanity; or who hath arrived at the age of fourteen years, or before that age, if such person know the distinction between good and evil. SEc. 4. An infant under the age of ten years, whose tender age renders it improbable that he or she should be impressed with a proper sense of moral obligation, or be possessed of suffi- cient capacity deliberately to have committed the offence, shall not be considered or found guilty of any crime or misdemeanor. 143

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