GPSTC CRIMINAL LAW UPDATED EXAM SET QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Prosecution for what offenses can commence at any time? - ✔✔When DNA
evidence is established to identify perpetrators in Armed Robbery, Kidnapping, Rape,
Aggravated Child Molestation, Aggravated Sodomy or Aggravated Sexual Battery
✔✔Prosecution for a misdemeanor shall be commenced within how much time? - ✔✔2
years after the commission of a crime
✔✔Can a female be charged with rape in GA? - ✔✔No
✔✔What is the general purpose of title 16 crimes and offenses? - ✔✔Proportionate
punishments, give fair warning of the nature of the conduct forbidden and the sentence,
define which statues are crimes
✔✔Entrapment O.C.G.A. 16-3-25 - ✔✔Idea starts with law enforcement/officer,
government officer or employee. Undue persuasion, incitement, or deceitful means
✔✔Misfortune or accident not a crime - ✔✔Not to be found guilty if the crime was
committed by accident or no criminal negligence
✔✔Statutory Rape O.C.G.A. 16-6-3 - ✔✔Sexual intercourse with any person under the
age of 16,
Victim 14 but less than 16 years of age and the person convicted of statutory rape is 18
years of age or younger and is no more than four years older than the victim
✔✔Rape O.C.G.A. 16-6-1 - ✔✔(1) A female forcibly and against her will; or
(2) A female who is less than ten years of age.
25 years to life followed by probation for life
✔✔Murder O.C.G.A. 16-5-1 - ✔✔A person commits the offense of murder when he
unlawfully and with malice aforethought, either express or implied, causes the death of
another human being
✔✔Malice Murder - ✔✔Malice shall be implied where no considerable provocation
appears and where all the circumstances of the killing show an abandoned and
malignant heart.
✔✔Murder 2nd degree - ✔✔A person commits the offense of murder in the second
degree when, in the commission of cruelty to children in the second degree, he or she
causes the death of another human being irrespective of malice.
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Prosecution for what offenses can commence at any time? - ✔✔When DNA
evidence is established to identify perpetrators in Armed Robbery, Kidnapping, Rape,
Aggravated Child Molestation, Aggravated Sodomy or Aggravated Sexual Battery
✔✔Prosecution for a misdemeanor shall be commenced within how much time? - ✔✔2
years after the commission of a crime
✔✔Can a female be charged with rape in GA? - ✔✔No
✔✔What is the general purpose of title 16 crimes and offenses? - ✔✔Proportionate
punishments, give fair warning of the nature of the conduct forbidden and the sentence,
define which statues are crimes
✔✔Entrapment O.C.G.A. 16-3-25 - ✔✔Idea starts with law enforcement/officer,
government officer or employee. Undue persuasion, incitement, or deceitful means
✔✔Misfortune or accident not a crime - ✔✔Not to be found guilty if the crime was
committed by accident or no criminal negligence
✔✔Statutory Rape O.C.G.A. 16-6-3 - ✔✔Sexual intercourse with any person under the
age of 16,
Victim 14 but less than 16 years of age and the person convicted of statutory rape is 18
years of age or younger and is no more than four years older than the victim
✔✔Rape O.C.G.A. 16-6-1 - ✔✔(1) A female forcibly and against her will; or
(2) A female who is less than ten years of age.
25 years to life followed by probation for life
✔✔Murder O.C.G.A. 16-5-1 - ✔✔A person commits the offense of murder when he
unlawfully and with malice aforethought, either express or implied, causes the death of
another human being
✔✔Malice Murder - ✔✔Malice shall be implied where no considerable provocation
appears and where all the circumstances of the killing show an abandoned and
malignant heart.
✔✔Murder 2nd degree - ✔✔A person commits the offense of murder in the second
degree when, in the commission of cruelty to children in the second degree, he or she
causes the death of another human being irrespective of malice.
