Title 15 — Courts
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O.C.G.A. § 15-12-72 Disclosures of grand jurors in court
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Grand jurors shall disclose everything which occurs in their service whenever it becomes necessary in any court of record in this state. (Laws 1812, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 277; Code 1863, § 3722; Code 1868, § 3746; Code 1873, § 3799; Code 1882, § 3799; Civil Code 1895, § 5200; Pe…
O.C.G.A. § 15-12-74 Grand jury presentment of offenses
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Grand jurors have a duty to examine or make presentments of such offenses as may or shall come to their knowledge or observation after they have been sworn. Additionally, they have the right and power and it is their duty as jurors to make presentments of any violations of the la…
O.C.G.A. § 15-12-78 Inspection of county jails; recommendations and presentments
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Grand juries shall carefully inspect the sanitary condition of the jails of their respective counties at each regular inspection provided for in Code Section 15-12-71 and in their general presentments shall make such recommendations to the county governing authorities as may be n…
O.C.G.A. § 15-12-8 Expense allowance when no grand jury impaneled
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If in any county no grand jury is impaneled in the fall of any year, then, as to such county, the expense allowance provided for in Code Section 15-12-7 shall remain as fixed by the grand jury for the preceding year. (Orig. Code 1863, § 3846; Code 1868, § 3866; Ga. L. 1871-72, p.…
O.C.G.A. § 15-12-80 Publication of general presentments
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Grand juries are authorized to recommend to the court the publication of the whole or any part of their general presentments and to 70 15-12-81 prescribe the manner of publication. When the recommendation is made, the judge shall order the publication as recommended. Reasonable c…
O.C.G.A. § 15-12-81 Everetteze v
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Clark, 286 Ga. 11, 685 S.E.2d 72, 2009 Ga. LEXIS 643 (2009). No material factor identified under O.C.G.A. § 48-5-299. — Grant of summary judgment to the taxpayers in the taxpayers’ respective assessment appeals was upheld because the county board’s stated basis for increasing the …
O.C.G.A. § 15-12-82 Change of venue in criminal grand jury investigation
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(a) The judges of the superior courts are authorized and empowered to transfer the investigation by a grand jury from the county where the crime was committed to the grand jury in any other county in this state when it appears that a qualified grand jury cannot be had for the pur…