Legal Question in Criminal Law in Georgia

Re: Making terroristic threats/GA

Under OCGA � 16-11-37(a), a person commits the offense of a terroristic threat when he threatens to commit any crime of violence . . . with the purpose of terrorizing another . . . or in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror. . . . No person shall be convicted under this subsection on the uncorroborated testimony of the party to whom the threat is communicated.

However, the statute's requirement of corroboration may be satisfied by circumstantial as well as direct evidence, and it may be slight evidence, and the events leading up to the terroristic threat may be sufficient.

In this case, your testimony may establish the circumstances under which the

threat was uttered: the defendant's behavior toward you that constitutes the aggravated assault charge. Georgia law has said that this is sufficent evidence to uphold a terroristic threats conviction.