{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-24-13-96","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 24-13-96","heading":"Exemption of witnesses from arrest and service of process.","body":"(a) If a person comes into this state in obedience to a summons directing him or her to attend and testify in this state, such person shall not while in this state pursuant to such summons be subject to arrest or the service of process, civil or criminal, in connection with matters which arose before such person’s entrance into this state under the summons.\n(b) If a person passes through this state while going to another state in obedience to a summons to attend and testify in that state or while returning therefrom, he or she shall not while so passing through this state be subject to arrest or the service of process, civil or criminal, in connection with matters which arose before such person’s entrance into this state under the summons.","path":["TITLE 24 EvidenceCHAPTER 99.","CHAPTER 13 Securing Attendance of Witnesses and Production and Preservation of Evidence","Article 4 Uniform Act to Secure the Attendance of Witnesses from Without the State"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.24.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":"1cde767875fec505a6189029a94b73fdc83148fc383eb4933575b26b0ba01855","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-24-13-95","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-24-13-97"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}