{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-15-12-168","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 15-12-168","heading":"Authority to call alternate jurors.","body":"Whenever in the opinion of a judge of a superior court any felony trial is likely to be a protracted one, immediately after the jury has been impaneled and sworn the court shall direct the calling of one or more additional jurors to be known as “alternate jurors.”","path":["TITLE 15 Courts","CHAPTER 12 Juries","Article 5 Trial Juries","PART 2 Juries in Felony Cases"],"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":"75ae112988f2a42ae0cfc8c6acb6042b38fea09e05ece86560162644c96dcad3","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-15-12-167","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-15-12-169"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}