O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 15-12-9 (2019)

Expense allowance of persons who appear but are not sworn as trial or grand juror

✓ 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.
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section GA-LEGlegis.ga.gov (official) JustiaJustia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

The persons who appear in answer to the summons for trial or grand jury service shall receive the expense allowance for the day of their appearance even if they are not sworn as jurors.

History

(Ga. L. 1890-91, p. 225, § 1; Penal Code 1895, § 874; Penal Code 1910, § 879; Code 1933, § 59-122; Ga. L. 1974, p. 325, § 3; Ga. L. 2011, p. 59, § 1-9/HB 415.)

Annotations

Editor’s notes. - Ga. L. 2011, p. 59, § 1-1/HB 415, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: ‘‘This Act shall be

known and may be cited as the ‘Jury Composition Reform Act of 2011.’ ’’

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 47 Am. Jur. 2d, Jury, § 100.

C.J.S. - 50A C.J.S., Juries, § 351.