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Title 17. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Chapter 9. VERDICT AND JUDGMENT GENERALLY · Article 2. RENDITION AND RECEIPT OF VERDICT

17-9-20. Action by juror on private knowledge as to facts, witnesses, or parties.

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

  1. A juror shall not act on his or her private knowledge respecting the facts, witnesses, or parties.

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

Civil Code 1895, § 5337; Civil Code 1910, § 5932; Code 1933, § 110-108; Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 32/HB 24.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 101/HB 24, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that this Act shall apply to any motion made or hearing or trial commenced on or after January 1, 2013.

Cross references

Juror as witness, § 24-6-606.

Law reviews

For article discussing swearing a juror as a witness, see 11 Ga. B.J. 321 (1949). For article, ‘‘Evidence,’’ see 27 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 1 (2011). For article on the 2011 amendment of this Code section, see 28 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 1 (2011). For comment on Tumlin v. State, 88 Ga. App. 713, 77 S.E.2d 555 (1953), holding that a juror is competent to testify in a felony case against the accused and defendant is not deprived of right to fair trial, see 16 Ga. B.J. 346 (1954).

Other notes

History of Code section.
This Code section is derived from the decisions in Chattanooga, R. & C. Ry. Co. v. Owen, 90 Ga. 265, 15 S.E. 853 (1892) and Pettyjohn v. Liebscher, 92 Ga. 154, 17 S.E. 1007 (1893).

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

Text read from t17-(v15)-2020-pdf.pdf, Volume V15, 2020 edition, pages 984 to 985; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 0b0d45f9c609.