Georgia Code
Article 7 - Demand for Trial; Announcement of Readiness for Trial
§ 17-7-170. Demand for Speedy Trial; Service; Discharge and Acquittal for Lack of Prosecution; Expiration; Reversal on Direct Appeal; Mistrial and Retrial; Special Pleas of Incompetency

History. Ga. L. 1859, p. 60, § 1; Code 1863, § 4534; Code 1868, § 4554; Code 1873, § 4648; Code 1882, § 4648; Penal Code 1895, § 958; Penal Code 1910, § 983; Code 1933, § 27-1901; Ga. L. 1985, p. 637, § 5; Ga. L. 1987, p. 841, § 1; Ga. L. 2003, p. 154, § 3; Ga. L. 2006, p. 893, § 1/HB 1421; Ga. L. 2011, p. 372, § 3/HB 421.
Cross references.
Requests by inmates for final disposition of indictments or accusations pending against them, § 42-6-3 .
Filing and processing, caption, Uniform Superior Court Rules, Rule 36.3.
Law reviews.
For annual survey on criminal law and procedure, see 42 Mercer L. Rev. 141 (1990).
For annual survey of criminal law, see 57 Mercer L. Rev. 113 (2005); 58 Mercer L. Rev. 83 (2006).

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