Finger v. State

Pannell, Judge.

1. Where the prosecutor is the father-in-law of a person to whom a juror is related in the fifth degree under the civil law, such juror is not disqualified under the Act of 1935, approved March 28, 1935 (Ga. L. 1935, p. 396; Code Ann. § 59-716), which provides that a juror “related by-consanguinity or affinity to any party interested in the result of the case . . . within the sixth degree,” shall be disqualified to act, this for the reason that while the daughter-in-law of the prosecutor is related to the prosecutor by affinity, this does not make the relatives of the…