Ga. Code § 15-2-16 : COURTS — SUPREME COURT — GENERAL PROVISIONS —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.

OCGA § 15-2-16

Amended by 2016 Ga. Laws 626,§ 4-3, eff. 1/1/2017.
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