15-12-10. Juror’s failure to appear or unauthorized absence; contempt.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

If any person is duly summoned to appear as a trial or grand juror at court and neglects or refuses to appear, or if any juror absents himself or herself without leave of the court, such neglect, refusal, or absence may, after notice and hearing, be punished as contempt of court.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1869, p. 139, § 7; Ga. L. 1872, p. 15, § 1; Code 1873, § 3938; Code 1882, § 3938; Penal Code 1895, § 864; Penal Code 1910, § 868; Code 1933, § 59-117; Ga. L. 1976, p. 438, § 5; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1292, § 1; Ga. L. 2011, p. 59, § 1-10/HB 415; Ga. L. 2014, p. 862, § 6/HB 1078.

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.’’’

Other notes

The 2014 amendment, effective April 29, 2014, inserted ‘‘trial or grand’’ near the beginning, and substituted ‘‘such’’ for ‘‘said’’ near the middle.

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Text read from t15-ch12-24-(v13a)-2015-pdf.pdf, Volume V13A, 2015 edition, page 21; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 3ead04cf60ab.