2022 Georgia Code
Title 15 - Courts
Chapter 12 - Juries
Article 4 - Grand Juries
Part 1 - General Provisions
§ 15-12-63. Concurrent Grand Juries
In any term of court when the public interest requires it, the court, on application of the district attorney, may empanel one or more concurrent grand juries.
History. Ga. L. 1871-72, p. 47, § 3; Code 1873, § 3936; Code 1882, § 3936; Ga. L. 1884-85, p. 41, § 1; Penal Code 1895, § 862; Penal Code 1910, § 866; Code 1933, § 59-204; Ga. L. 2011, p. 59, § 1-30/HB 415; Ga. L. 2014, p. 862, § 11/HB 1078.
The 2014 amendment, effective April 29, 2014, substituted the present provisions of this Code section for the former provisions, which read: “When the superior court is held for longer than one week, the presiding judge may direct the clerk to choose separate grand juries for each week.”
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2011, p. 59, § 1-1/HB 415, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Jury Composition Reform Act of 2011.’ ”
