Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 12. JURIES · Article 5. TRIAL JURIES · Part 2. JURIES IN FELONY CASES

15-12-168. Authority to call alternate jurors.

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Whenever in the opinion of a judge of a superior court any felony trial is likely to be a protracted one, immediately after the jury has been impaneled and sworn the court shall direct the calling of one or more additional jurors to be known as ‘‘alternate jurors.’’

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.

Ga. L. 1957, p. 466, § 1; Ga. L. 1968, p. 1225, § 1; Ga. L. 1976, p. 1043, § 1.

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