Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 10. CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE GENERALLY · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

9-10-6. Juror’s private knowledge.

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

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, § 9/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

Corresponding provision relating to criminal procedure, § 17-9-20. Juror as witness, § 24-6-606.

Law reviews

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).

Other notes

History of Section.: This Code section is derived from the decisions in Chattanooga, R. & C.R.R. v. Owen, 90 Ga. 265, 15 S.E. 853 (1892) and Pettyjohn v. Liebscher, 92 Ga. 149, 17 S.E. 1007 (1893).

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