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to the website for the Morgan County Magistrate Court. Magistrate
court jurisdiction includes: civil claims of $15,000 or less; certain minor
criminal offenses; distress warrants and dispossessory writs; county ordinance
violations; deposit account fraud (bad checks); preliminary hearings; and
summonses, arrest and search warrants. A chief magistrate, who may be assisted
by one or more magistrates, presides over each of Georgia’s 159 magistrate
courts.
Magistrates may grant bail in cases where the setting of bail is not exclusively reserved to a judge of another court. No jury trials are held in magistrate court. If a defendant submits a written request for a jury trial, cases may be removed to superior or state court. The chief magistrate of each county assigns cases, sets court sessions, appoints other magistrates (with the consent of the superior court judges) and sets policy for the magistrate court. |
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