{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-17-9-40","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 17-9-40","heading":"Amendment of verdict after dispersion of jury.","body":"A verdict may be amended in mere matter of form after the jury have dispersed; but, after it has been received, recorded, and the jury dispersed, it may not be amended in matter of substance, either by what the jurors say they intended to find or otherwise.","path":["TITLE 17 Criminal Procedure","CHAPTER 9 Verdict and Judgment Generally","Article 3 Amendment and Impeachment of Verdict"],"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":"a0376a2df96404a7c4517282e4f52b2f5e4aef188c2a867016949273bde3a704","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-17-9-23","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-17-9-41"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}