• § 15-12-160 - Required Panel of Jurors in Felony Trial; Summoning Prospective Jurors When Necessary
  Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2011, p. 59, § 1-55/HB 415, effective July 1, 2012.
• § 15-12-160.1 - Impanelling Jurors for Criminal Trials; Choosing and Summoning Prospective Jurors If Necessary to Fill Panel
  On and after July 1, 2012, when any person stands indicted for a felony, the court shall have impaneled 30 jurors from which the...
• § 15-12-161 - Clerk to Provide Names of Prospective Jurors and Identifying Information to Prosecutor and Accused
  The clerk shall provide the prosecuting attorney and the accused with the names and identifying information relative to prospective jurors for the case being
• § 15-12-162 - Challenge to the Array
  The accused may, in writing, challenge the array for any cause going to show that it was not fairly or properly impaneled or ought...
• § 15-12-163 - Challenges for Cause; Hearing of Evidence; When Objection May Be Made
  (a) When each juror is called, he shall be presented to the accused in such a manner that he can be distinctly seen.(b) The...
• § 15-12-164 - Questions on Voir Dire; Setting Aside Juror for Cause
  (a) On voir dire examination in a felony trial, the jurors shall be asked the following questions: (1) "Have you, for any reason, formed...
• § 15-12-165 - Number of Peremptory Challenges
  Every person accused of a felony may peremptorily challenge nine of the jurors impaneled to try him or her. The state shall be allowed...
• § 15-12-166 - Jurors Not Challenged to Be Sworn
  If a juror is found competent and is not challenged peremptorily by the state, he shall be put upon the accused. Unless he is...
• § 15-12-167 - Time for Challenge and Hearing Thereon
  If known to a party or his counsel, any objections to a juror for cause shall be made before the juror is sworn in...
• § 15-12-168 - Authority to Call Alternate Jurors
  Whenever in the opinion of a judge of a superior court any felony trial is likely to be a protracted one, immediately after the...
• § 15-12-169 - Manner of Selecting Alternate Jurors
  Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2011, p. 59, § 1-60/HB 415, effective July 1, 2012.
• § 15-12-169.1 - Choosing of Alternate Jurors; Peremptory Challenges
  On and after July 1, 2012, alternate jurors shall be chosen from the same county master jury list and in the same manner and...
• § 15-12-170 - Oath and Duties of Alternate Jurors; Expense Allowance
  Alternate jurors shall take the same oath as the jurors already selected. They shall be seated near the jury, with equal opportunity for seeing...
• § 15-12-171 - Discharge or Separate Custody of Alternate Jurors Upon Submission of Verdict
  Upon final submission of the case to the jury, the alternate jurors shall not retire with the jury of 12 for deliberation but may...
• § 15-12-172 - Replacement of Incapacitated Jurors; Effect of Replacement
  If at any time, whether before or after final submission of the case to the jury, a juror dies, becomes ill, upon other good...

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