GA 17-5-24 - GA 17-5-24

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Constitutional standards for acceptable warrant directed to all police. - Even though the execution of a warrant is directed to all peace officers, a search pursuant to the warrant meets the requirements of the United States and Georgia Constitutions if the warrant was limited in the warrant's scope to physically described persons in a specific vicinity, and the description sufficiently permitted a prudent officer with a search warrant to be able to locate the person and place definitely and with reasonable certainty. Fomby v. State, 120 Ga. App. 387 , 170 S.E.2d 585 (1969), cert. denied, 397 U.S. 1008, 90 S. Ct. 1236 , 25 L. Ed. 2 d 421 (1970). Warrant photocopy acceptable. - Photocopy is an actual photograph of the document signed by the magistrate and it is entitled t...