...that he had failed to identify a violation of a jury selection statute, Moody argues for the first time in his reply brief that the altered master jury list used by Fulton County was not the county master jury list actually compiled by the Council as required by OCGA §§ 15-12-120.1 (providing that, “[o]n and after July 1, 2012, trial juries shall be chosen from a county master jury list”) and 15-12-1 (5) (defining the term “‘[c]ounty master jury list’” as “a list compiled by the council”)....

...and a defect “[w]here th[e] role of the jury commission ha[d] been entirely circumvented by the service of a grand juror it never selected for service, [which was] an ‘essential and substantial’ 56 OCGA § 15-12-120.1 was violated in the manner that Moody alleges, Moody has not established a fair-cross-section violation, as discussed below, or that the alleged violation amounted to “such disregard of the essential and substantial provisions of the statute as would vitiate the array[ ]” to warrant automatic reversal....

...r court of the county. [4] Subsection (b) provides in full as follows: b) Subsection (a) of this Code section shall be applicable only if: (1) At the time the names of trial jurors are drawn by the judge of the superior court in accordance with Code Section 15-12-120, the judge who draws the jurors shall announce in open court the name or names of the court or courts other than the superior court wherein the jurors shall be competent and qualified to serve by virtue of this Code section; (2) The...

...20 See OCGA § 15-12-1 (2) (“Choose” or “chosen” means the act of randomly selecting potential jurors from the county master jury list in a manner that does not deliberately or systematically exclude identifiable and distinct groups from the venire.”); OCGA § 15-12-120.1 (“On and after July 1, 2012, trial juries shall be chosen from a county master jury list....