O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 15-12-2 (2019)

Legislators excused

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

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.

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Any person summoned to serve as a juror in any court of this state shall be excused from such service during his attendance as a legislator in the General Assembly.

History

(Ga. L. 1905, p. 93, § 2; Penal Code 1910, § 828; Code 1933, § 59-113.)

Annotations

Cross references. - Legislator exemption, § 24-13-29. OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Members of General Assembly are not disqualified as jurors. 1948-49 Op. Att’y Gen. p. 583.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 47 Am. Jur. 2d, Jury, § 159.

C.J.S. - 50A C.J.S., Juries, §§ 285, 302 et seq., 347 et seq.