Case Name: Lockett vs. The State of Georgia
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1878-08
Citations: 61 Ga. 44
Docket Number: 
Parties: Lockett vs. The State of Georgia.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 61
Pages: 44–45

Head Matter:
Lockett vs. The State of Georgia.
The president of a company of lessees of penitentiary convicts, is not an officer of tlie penitentiary, in the sense of section 4805 of the Code, and is not exempt from jury duty.
Jurors. Officers. Before Judge Wright. Dougherty Superior Court. April Term, 1878.
Reported in the opinion.
Wooten, Jones & Davis, for plaintiff in error,
cited Code, §§4805, 4766-7; acts 1876, p. 40, §§1-3; acts 1874, p. 26.
W. O. Fleming, solicitor general, for the state,
cited 43 Ga, 209.

Opinion:
Jackson, Justice.
B. G. Lockett set up in Dougherty superior court that he was exempt from jury duty, because he was president of a company of lessees of the penitentiary convicts, under the act of 1876 authorizing such lease, and because under said act and lease he was an officer of the penitentiary.
The superior court held that he was not exempt, and fined him forty dollars, and this judgment is assigned for error here.
It is true that officers of the penitentiary are exempt under the Code, §4805, and the officers thus exempt are enumerated in §4766, 4767; but the trouble in Mr. Lockett's case is, that he is not included as a lessee, or as president of a company of lessees, in such enumeration of officers of the penitentiary, nor does the act of 1876 exempt the lessees or their officers, nor does any other law of the state known to us exempt them, or either or any of them, from jury duty.
Judgment affirmed.