2020 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
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.
(Ga. L. 1935, p. 396, § 1; Ga. L. 2016, p. 242, § 5/SB 262.)
The 2016 amendment, effective July 1, 2016, substituted "third degree" for "sixth degree" near the end of the first sentence.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 38 Am. Jur. 2d, Grand Jury, § 11.
C.J.S.- 38A C.J.S., Grand Juries, §§ 11, 22 et seq.
ALR.
- Right to introduce extrinsic evidence in support of challenge to juror for cause, 65 A.L.R. 1056.
Challenge of proposed juror for implied bias or interest because of relationship to one who would be subject to challenge for that reason, 86 A.L.R. 118.
