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title: O.C.G.A. § 45-16-41. Defaulting juror to be fined by coroner.
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# O.C.G.A. § 45-16-41. Defaulting juror to be fined by coroner.

Any juror failing to attend and serve on a coroner’s inquest after being duly summoned may be fined by the coroner in a sum not exceeding $100.00 to be levied and collected by execution issued by the coroner unless such defaulting juror shall file in the office of the judge of the probate court a good and sufficient excuse for the default to be judged by the next probate court held thereafter.

## History

Laws 1823, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 538; Code 1863, § 4003; Code 1868, § 4031; Code 1873, § 4102; Code 1882, § 4102; Penal Code 1895, § 1260; Penal Code 1910, § 1342; Code 1933, § 21-211; Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 602, § 15; Ga. L. 1984, p. 812, § 6; Ga. L. 1990, p. 1735, § 3.