§ 10-104. Court administration; docket.  


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  • (a)

    The judges of the state court of Cobb County, in transacting the business of said court and in performing their duties and responsibilities, shall share, divide and allocate the work and duties to be performed by each judge. In the event of disagreement between said judges, the decision of a majority of the judges shall be controlling. The judges of the state court of Cobb County shall have, and they are hereby clothed with, full powers, authority and discretion to determine, from time to time and term to term, the manner of calling the dockets and of fixing the calendars and order of business in said court. They may assign the hearing of trials by jury for a term to one of said judges and the hearing of all other matters not requiring a trial by a jury to any other judge, and they may rotate such order of business at the next term. Each of said judges may conduct trials by jury at the same time, or any of them may hear business in chambers and motions at the same time within said court. They may provide, in all respects, for holding the state court so as to facilitate the hearing and determination of all business of said court pending at any time and ready for trial or hearing. In all such matters relating to the manner of fixing, arranging for and disposing of the business of said court, and making appointments as authorized by law, where the judges of said court cannot agree, the opinion of the majority of such judges shall control.

    (b)

    Any provision of this section to the contrary notwithstanding, there is hereby created for the state court of Cobb County a docket of criminal cases, to be known as the dead docket, to which cases shall be transferred at the discretion of the solicitor, and which shall only be called at his pleasure. When a case is thus transferred, all witnesses who may have been subpoenaed therein shall be released from further attendance until resubpoenaed.

(1977 Ga. Laws (Act No. 387), page 3188, § 2)