Current through 2023-2024 Legislative Session Chapter 709
Section 15-2-16 - Reversal and affirmance; minutes and reports to show concurrences and dissents(a) In all cases decided by the Supreme Court, the concurrence of a majority of the Justices shall be essential to a judgment of reversal. If the Justices are evenly divided, the judgment of the court below shall stand affirmed. In all cases decided by the court, with at least a quorum but less than nine Justices, the concurrence of at least five shall be essential to the rendition of a judgment.(b) Both the minutes and the printed official reports shall show how many and which Justices concurred in each judgment rendered and which, if any, dissented therefrom.Amended by 2016 Ga. Laws 626,§ 4-3, eff. 1/1/2017.