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title: O.C.G.A. § 15-12-168. Authority to call alternate jurors.
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# O.C.G.A. § 15-12-168. Authority to call alternate jurors.

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.’’

## History

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