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2018 Georgia Code 45-16-41 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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O.C.G.A. 45-16-41 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 45-16-41

TITLE 45 PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES

Section 16. Coroners, 45-16-1 through 45-16-80.

ARTICLE 2 DEATH INVESTIGATIONS

45-16-41. Defaulting juror to be fined by coroner.

Any juror failing to attend and serve on a coroner's inquest after being duly summoned may be fined by the coroner in a sum not exceeding $100.00 to be levied and collected by execution issued by the coroner unless such defaulting juror shall file in the office of the judge of the probate court a good and sufficient excuse for the default to be judged by the next probate court held thereafter.

(Laws 1823, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 538; Code 1863, § 4003; Code 1868, § 4031; Code 1873, § 4102; Code 1882, § 4102; Penal Code 1895, § 1260; Penal Code 1910, § 1342; Code 1933, § 21-211; Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 602, § 15; Ga. L. 1984, p. 812, § 6; Ga. L. 1990, p. 1735, § 3.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

C.J.S.

- 18 C.J.S., Coroners, § 14 et seq.

Cases Citing O.C.G.A. § 45-16-41

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Kilgore v. R. W. Page Corp., 259 Ga. 556 (Ga. 1989).

Cited 2 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Nov 9, 1989 | 385 S.E.2d 406, 17 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1031

...Specifically, “[w]e express no opinion as to a coroner’s right to withhold a transcript of a closed inquest.” 257 Ga. at 179. See Art. VI, Sec. I, Par. I of the Constitution of Georgia of 1983, specifying the classes of courts; and OCGA §§ 45-16-35 through 45-16-41, and, more specifically, OCGA §§ 45-16-35 and 45-16-36, relating to inquests. See the discussion of on-going criminal investigations and the Open Records Act by Chief Justice Marshall in Napper v....