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

O.C.G.A. § 15-12-10 (2019)

Juror's failure to appear or unauthorized absence; contempt

✓ O.C.G.A. (archive.org 2024 item): print volumes of 2004-2024, per-volume vintage; older volumes partly replaced by 2019 Release 73 text; no 2025 or 2026 Acts
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section GA-LEGlegis.ga.gov (official) JustiaJustia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

If any person is duly summoned to appear as a trial or grand juror at court and neglects or refuses to appear, or if any juror absents himself or herself without leave of the court, such neglect, refusal, or absence may, after notice and hearing, be punished as contempt of court.

History

(Ga. L. 1869, p. 139, § 7; Ga. L. 1872, p. 15, § 1; Code 1873, § 3938; Code 1882, § 3938; Penal Code 1895, § 864; Penal Code 1910, § 868; Code 1933, § 59-117; Ga. L. 1976, p. 438, § 5; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1292, § 1; Ga. L. 2011, p. 59, § 1-10/HB 415; Ga. L. 2014, p. 862, § 6/HB 1078.)

Annotations

The 2014 amendment, effective April 29, 2014, inserted "trial or grand" near the beginning, and substituted "such" for "said" near the middle.

Editor's notes. - Ga. L. 2011, p. 59, § 1-1/HB 415, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "This Act shall be known and may be cited as the 'Jury Composition Reform Act of 2011.'"

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d. - 47 Am. Jur. 2d, Jury, § 98.

C.J.S. - 50A C.J.S., Juries, §§ 345, 346.

ALR. - Holding jurors in contempt under state law, 93 A.L.R.5th 493.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2010–2010 · leading case: Humphreys v. State, 694 S.E.2d 316 (Ga. 2010).
Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment
Humphreys v. State, 694 S.E.2d 316 (Ga. 2010). · cites it 4× “2 and OCGA § 15-12-10 concerns delinquent jurors and is obviously inapplicable.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.