O.C.G.A. § 15-12-137 (2019)

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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 city when that city is a party to an action. Hickox v. State, 138 Ga. App. 882, 227 S.E.2d 829 (1976). Citizen or resident of a municipal corporation, if otherwise competent to serve, is not incompetent to serve as a juror in a case in which that municipal corporation is a party or is interested. Claxton Poultry Co. v. City of Claxton, 155 Ga. App. 308, 271 S.E.2d 227 (1980). Fact that fines and forfeitures arising in city court are payable to educational fund of city does not disqualify

citizens of the city from serving as jurors in that court. Letson v. State, 7 Ga. App. 745, 68 S.E. 60 (1910). 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, §§ 102, 109. C.J.S. - 50A C.J.S., Juries, § 380. ALR. - Disqualification, as jurors, of

residents or taxpayers of litigating political subdivision, in absence of specific controlling statute, 81 ALR2d 708.