Georgia § 16-1-2 - Purposes of title.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 16-1-2 — Purposes of title., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 16-1-2. Purposes of title.
The general purposes of this title are: To forbid and prevent conduct which unjustifiably and inexcusably causes or threatens substantial harm to individual or public interests; To give fair warning of the nature of the conduct forbidden and the sentence authorized upon conviction; To define that which constitutes each crime; and To prescribe penalties which are proportionate to the seriousness of crimes and which permit recognition of differences in rehabilitation possibilities among individual criminals. (Code 1933, § 26-102, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.)
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