2025 Georgia Codes – Page 17

(a) A person commits the offense of criminal solicitation when, with intent that another person engage in con-
duct constituting a felony, he solicits, requests, commands, importunes, or otherwise attempts to cause the
other person to engage in such conduct.
(b) A person convicted of the offense of criminal solicitation to commit a felony shall be punished by impris-
onment for not less than one nor more than three years. A person convicted of the offense of criminal solici-
tation to commit a crime punishable by death or by life imprisonment shall be punished by imprisonment for
not less than one nor more than five years.
(c) It is no defense to a prosecution for criminal solicitation that the person solicited could not be guilty of the
crime solicited.
(d) The provisions of subsections (a) through (c) of this Code section are cumulative and shall not supersede
any other penal law of this state.

A person commits the offense of conspiracy to commit a crime when he together with one or more persons
conspires to commit any crime and any one or more of such persons does any overt act to effect the object of
the conspiracy. A person convicted of the offense of criminal conspiracy to commit a felony shall be pun-
ished by imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than one-half the maximum period of time for
which he could have been sentenced if he had been convicted of the crime conspired to have been commit-
ted, by one-half the maximum fine to which he could have been subjected if he had been convicted of such
crime, or both. A person convicted of the offense of criminal conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor shall be
punished as for a misdemeanor. A person convicted of the offense of criminal conspiracy to commit a crime
punishable by death or by life imprisonment shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one year
nor more than ten years.