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2020 Georgia Code
Title 15 - Courts
Chapter 12 - Juries
Article 5 - Trial Juries
Part 1 - In General
§ 15-12-136. Competency of County Residents When County Is Interested in Case
Universal Citation: GA Code § 15-12-136 (2020)
All inhabitants of a county who are competent jurors in other cases shall be competent jurors in any case in which the county is a party or is interested in its capacity as a corporation or a quasi-corporation.
(Orig. Code 1863, § 463; Code 1868, § 525; Code 1873, § 491; Code 1882, § 491; Penal Code 1895, § 876; Penal Code 1910, § 881; Code 1933, § 59-714.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 47 Am. Jur. 2d, Jury, § 275.
C.J.S.- 50A C.J.S., Juries, §§ 266, 267.
ALR.- Disqualification, as jurors, of residents or taxpayers of litigating political subdivision, in absence of specific controlling statute, 81 A.L.R.2d 708.
Similarity of occupation between proposed juror and alleged victim of crime as affecting juror's competency, 71 A.L.R.3d 974.
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