{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-15-10-261","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 15-10-261","heading":"Waiver of jury trial.","body":"There shall be no jury trials in the magistrate court. A magistrate court shall not have the power to dispose of the misdemeanor offenses enumerated in subsection (a) of Code Section 15-10-260 unless the defendant shall first waive in writing a trial by jury. If the defendant does not waive a trial by jury, the defendant shall notify the court and, if probable cause exists, the defendant shall be immediately bound over to a court in the county having jurisdiction to try the offense wherein a jury may be impaneled.","path":["TITLE 15 Courts","CHAPTER 10 Magistrate Courts","Article 13 Trials of Certain Misdemeanors"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.15.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"2ea83d9e9f5fedfb013109ea776f988ede4cd15048865aebb4b5254a72bfb46e","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-15-10-260","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-15-10-262"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}