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2018 Georgia Code 15-12-170 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)
O.C.G.A. 15-12-170 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 15-12-170

TITLE 15 COURTS

Section 12. Juries, 15-12-1 through 15-12-172.

ARTICLE 5 TRIAL JURIES

15-12-170. Oath and duties of alternate jurors; expense allowance.

Alternate jurors shall take the same oath as the jurors already selected. They shall be seated near the jury, with equal opportunity for seeing and hearing the proceedings, and shall attend at all times upon the trial with the jury. They shall obey all orders and admonitions of the court to the jury. When the regular jurors are ordered kept together in any case, the alternate jurors shall also be kept in confinement with the regular jurors. Alternate jurors shall receive the same expense allowance as do the regular jurors.

(Ga. L. 1957, p. 466, § 3; Ga. L. 1968, p. 1225, § 3; Ga. L. 1974, p. 325, § 6.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Plea of former jeopardy where jury is discharged because of illness or insanity of juror, 125 A.L.R. 694.

Cases Citing Georgia Code 15-12-170 From Courtlistener.com

Total Results: 2

Lonchar v. State

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 1988-07-13

Citation: 369 S.E.2d 749, 258 Ga. 447, 1988 Ga. LEXIS 327

Snippet: trial of the guilt phase of the case. OCGA § 15-12-170. When the case was presented to the jury for deliberation

Devier v. State

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 1984-11-29

Citation: 323 S.E.2d 150, 253 Ga. 604, 1984 Ga. LEXIS 1049

Snippet: the other jurors during the trial. See OCGA § 15-12-170; Patton v. Yount,_U. S._(35 Cr. L. R. 3152, 3155)