O.C.G.A. § 15-12-136 (2019)
Competency of county residents when county is interested in case
All inhabitants of a county who are competent jurors in other cases shall be competent jurors in any case in which the county is a party or is interested in its capacity as a corporation or a quasi-corporation.
History
(Orig. Code 1863, § 463; Code 1868, § 525; Code 1873, § 491; Code 1882, § 491; Penal Code 1895, § 876; Penal Code 1910, § 881; Code 1933, § 59-714.)
Annotations
JUDICIAL DECISIONS Status as inhabitant, citizen, resident, homeowner, or taxpayer. - Juror not rendered incompetent by status as inhabitant, citizen, resident, homeowner, and/or taxpayer of county when that county is party to action. Hickox v. State, 138 Ga. App. 882, 227 S.E.2d 829 (1976). Members of electric membership corporation. - It does not follow that a similar exception, like that provided by O.C.G.A. §§ 15-12-136 and 15-12-137 to
the rule precluding service by jurors with a stake in the outcome of a case, exists for members of electric membership corporations. Indeed, the absence of a similar statute applicable to electric membership corporations’ members would appear to be authority for a conclusion that no such exception exists. Thompson v. Sawnee Elec. Membership Corp., 157 Ga. App. 561, 278 S.E.2d 143 (1981).
RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 47 Am. Jur. 2d, Jury, § 275. C.J.S. - 50A C.J.S., Juries, §§ 266, 267.
ALR. - Disqualification, as jurors, of residents or taxpayers of litigating political subdivision, in absence of specific controlling statute, 81 ALR2d 708.
Similarity of occupation between proposed juror and alleged victim of crime as
affecting juror’s competency, 71 ALR3d 974.