Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 12. JURIES · Article 4. GRAND JURIES · Part 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

15-12-69. Oath of bailiff attending grand jury.

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

The following oath shall be administered to all bailiffs attending grand juries:
‘‘You do solemnly swear that you will diligently attend the grand jury during the present term and carefully deliver to that body all such bills of indictment or other things as shall be sent to them by the court without alteration, and as carefully return all such as shall be sent by that body to the court. So help you God.’’

Reading note: the printed indentation of one or more subsections was ambiguous, so their nesting is the extractor's best reading. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

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

Laws 1831, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, pp. 553-554; Code 1863, § 5105; Code 1868, § 3848; Code 1873, § 3916; Code 1882, § 3916; Penal Code 1895, § 828; Penal Code 1910, § 832; Code 1933, § 59-209.

Cross references

Selection of bailiffs by sheriff, § 15-6-35.

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

Text read from t15-ch12-24-(v13a)-2015-pdf.pdf, Volume V13A, 2015 edition, page 59; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 3ead04cf60ab.