2025 Code of Georgia
Title 15 - Courts (Chs. 1 — 26)
Chapter 12 - Juries (Arts. 1 — 5)
Article 3 - Selection of Jurors (§§ 15-12-40 — 15-12-46)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

There is no constitutional defect in system of selecting jurors. Mann v. Cox, 487 F. Supp. 147, 1979 U. S. Dist. LEXIS 9894 (S. D. Ga. 1979).

Statutes for selecting jurors, drawing and summoning jurors, form no part of a system to procure an impartial jury to parties. The statutes establish a mode of distributing jury duties among persons in the respective counties, the statutes provide for rotation in jury service, the statutes prescribe the qualifications of jurors, and the time and manner of summoning the jurors, and are directory to those whose duty it is to select, draw, and summon persons for jurors. Obviously, however, a disregard of the essential and substantial provisions of the statute will have the effect of vitiating the array. Franklin v. State, 245 Ga. 141, 263 S. E.2d 666, 1980 Ga. LEXIS 721, cert. denied, 447 U. S. 930, 100 S. Ct. 3029, 65 L. Ed. 2d 1124, 1980 U. S. LEXIS 2103 (1980).

Research References & Practice Aids

Discrimination against employee for attending a judicial proceeding in response to a court order or process, § 34-1-3.

For article, “Before You Accept that Friend Request or Publish that Post: Ethical Issues for Consideration in Social Media Interaction,” see 24 Ga. St. B. J. 19 (Aug. 2018).

38A C. J. S., Grand Juries, § 32.

Validity of jury selection as affected by accused’s absence from conducting of procedures for selection and impaneling of final jury panel for specific case, 33 A. L. R.4th 429.

O. C. G. A. Title 15

O. C. G. A. Title 15, Ch. 12