2019 Georgia Code
Title 15 - Courts
Chapter 12 - Juries
Article 4 - Grand Juries
Part 1 - General Provisions
§ 15-12-70. Disqualification for relationship to interested party

Universal Citation: GA Code § 15-12-70 (2019)

All grand jurors in the courts of this state shall be disqualified to act or serve in any case or matter when such jurors are related by consanguinity or affinity to any party interested in the result of the case or matter within the third degree as computed according to the civil law. Relationship more remote shall not be a disqualification.

History:

Ga. L. 1935, p. 396, § 1; Ga. L. 2016, p. 242, § 5/SB 262.

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