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title: O.C.G.A. § 15-12-5. Service at next term when term not held.
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# O.C.G.A. § 15-12-5. Service at next term when term not held.

Whenever a term of court is not held because of the nonattendance of the judge or for some other cause, the jurors summoned for such term of court shall serve at the next succeeding term.

## History

Laws 1805, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 550; Code 1863, § 3848; Code 1868, § 3868; Code 1873, § 3945; Code 1882, § 3945; Penal Code 1895, § 875; Penal Code 1910, § 880; Code 1933, § 59-119.

## Law Reviews

For annual survey article on trial practice and procedure, see 50 Mercer L. Rev. 359 (1998).