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Title 45. PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES · Chapter 16. CORONERS · Article 2. DEATH INVESTIGATIONS

45-16-40. Coroner’s charge to jury; power of jury.

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

  1. (a)

    The coroner shall charge the jurors to declare, and they shall so declare, whether the person for whom the inquest is held died by:#

    1. (1)

      Homicide;#

    2. (2)

      Suicide;#

    3. (3)

      Accident;#

    4. (4)

      Natural causes; or#

    5. (5)

      Undetermined causes#

    6. and all of the circumstances relating to the death.

  2. (b)

    The jury shall have full and unrestricted power to inquire and pass upon all the matters and things thus given them in charge and they shall have this power even if the whole or a part of the charge is omitted.#

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 1823, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 538; Code 1863, § 4006; Code 1868, § 4034; Code 1873, § 4105; Code 1882, § 4105; Penal Code 1895, § 1262; Penal Code 1910, § 1344; Code 1933, § 21-213; Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 602, § 17; Ga. L. 1990, p. 1735, § 3.

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

Text read from t45-(v33)-2016-pdf.pdf, Volume V33, 2016 edition, page 462; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 7dfce9a0fd88.