{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-17-4-42","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 17-4-42","heading":"Issuance of special warrants for arrest; treatment of special warrants as general arrest warrants.","body":"No judicial officer except a judge of the superior court shall issue a special warrant for arrest returnable only before himself; nor shall any superior court judge issue such warrant outside of his own judicial circuit. If issued outside the judicial circuit, the warrant shall be treated as a general arrest warrant.","path":["TITLE 17 Criminal Procedure","CHAPTER 4 Arrest of Persons","Article 3 Warrants for Arrest"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.17.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"af347855d1965767f7e43074eb130f9b7599d071d3653dade5f58689d549326a","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-17-4-41","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-17-4-43"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}