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2020 Georgia Code
Title 15 - Courts
Chapter 12 - Juries
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 15-12-2. Legislators Excused
Universal Citation: GA Code § 15-12-2 (2020)
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.
(Ga. L. 1905, p. 93, § 2; Penal Code 1910, § 828; Code 1933, § 59-113.)
Cross references.- Legislator exemption, § 24-13-29.
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERALMembers 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.
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