Coroner's Charge to Jury; Power of Jury

1. Law
2. Georgia Code
3. Public Officers and Employees
4. Coroners
5. Death Investigations
6. Coroner's Charge to Jury; Power of Jury

1. 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. Homicide;
   2. Suicide;
   3. Accident;
   4. Natural causes; or
   5. Undetermined causes

      and all of the circumstances relating to the death.

2. 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.

(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.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 18 Am. Jur. 2d, Coroners or Medical Examiners, § 13.

C.J.S.

- 18 C.J.S., Coroners, § 14 et seq.

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