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2020 Georgia Code
Title 45 - Public Officers and Employees
Chapter 16 - Coroners
Article 2 - Death Investigations
§ 45-16-40. Coroner's Charge to Jury; Power of Jury
Universal Citation: GA Code § 45-16-40 (2020)
- The coroner shall charge the jurors to declare, and they shall so declare, whether the person for whom the inquest is held died by:
- Homicide;
- Suicide;
- Accident;
- Natural causes; or
- Undetermined causes
and all of the circumstances relating to the death.
- The jury shall have full and unrestricted power to inquire and pass upon all the matters and things thus given them in charge and they shall have this power even if the whole or a part of the charge is omitted.
(Laws 1823, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 538; Code 1863, § 4006; Code 1868, § 4034; Code 1873, § 4105; Code 1882, § 4105; Penal Code 1895, § 1262; Penal Code 1910, § 1344; Code 1933, § 21-213; Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 602, § 17; Ga. L. 1990, p. 1735, § 3.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 18 Am. Jur. 2d, Coroners or Medical Examiners, § 13.
C.J.S.- 18 C.J.S., Coroners, § 14 et seq.
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