Time elapsed between injury and death

In order to be a homicide punishable under this article, death need not have occurred within a year and a day from the date of the injury alleged to have caused such death. History. — Code 1981, § 16-5-4, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 719, § 1. Editor’s notes. — Ga. L. 1991, p. 719, § 2, not codified by General Assembly, provides: ‘‘It is the intent of this Act to make statutory the ruling of the Supreme Court of Georgia that the year and a day rule referred to herein is not the law of Georgia.’’