O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 15-10-261 (2019)

Waiver of jury trial

✓ O.C.G.A.: 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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There shall be no jury trials in the magistrate court. A magistrate court shall not have the power to dispose of the misdemeanor offenses enumerated in subsection (a) of Code Section 15-10-260 unless the defendant shall first waive in writing a trial by jury. If the defendant does not waive a trial by jury, the defendant shall notify the court and, if probable cause exists, the defendant shall be immediately bound over to a court in the county having jurisdiction to try the offense wherein a jury may be impaneled.

History

Code 1981, § 15-10-261, enacted by Ga. L. 2000, p. 1155, § 3.