Service at Next Term When Term Not Held

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Whenever a term of court is not held because of the nonattendance of the judge or for some other cause, the jurors summoned for such term of court shall serve at the next succeeding term.

(Laws 1805, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 550; Code 1863, § 3848; Code 1868, § 3868; Code 1873, § 3945; Code 1882, § 3945; Penal Code 1895, § 875; Penal Code 1910, § 880; Code 1933, § 59-119.)

Law reviews.

- For annual survey article on trial practice and procedure, see 50 Mercer L. Rev. 359 (1998).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Walker v. O'Connor, 23 Ga. App. 22, 97 S.E. 276 (1918).

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Grand jury of superior court can be recessed for good cause and jurors resummoned and grand jury reconvened at some subsequent time. 1967 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 67-347.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Jurisdiction or power of grand jury after expiration of term of court for which organized, 75 A.L.R.2d 544.


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