TITLE 15 COURTS

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

ARTICLE 3 SELECTION OF JURORS

15-12-46. Adjournment of term pending choosing of trial or grand jurors.

If juries have not been chosen for any regular term of the superior court and there is not sufficient time for choosing and summoning prospective trial and grand jurors to serve at the regular term, the judge of the superior court for the county in which the failure has occurred, by order passed at chambers, may adjourn the court to another day, may require the requisite number of prospective trial and grand jurors to be summoned, and may enforce their attendance at the term so called.

(Ga. L. 1880-81, p. 116, § 4; Code 1882, § 3941b; Penal Code 1895, § 870; Penal Code 1910, § 874; Code 1933, § 59-116; Ga. L. 2011, p. 59, § 1-25/HB 415; Ga. L. 2014, p. 862, § 9/HB 1078.)

The 2014 amendment, effective April 29, 2014, inserted "trial and grand" near the beginning and substituted "trial and grand jurors" for "grand and trial jurors" near the end of this Code section.