{"id":436,"date":"2022-01-02T14:31:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T19:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stewartcountyga.gov\/stcowp\/?page_id=436"},"modified":"2022-01-05T12:20:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T17:20:19","slug":"coroner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stewartcountyga.gov\/?page_id=436","title":{"rendered":"Coroner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pg-436-0\"  class=\"panel-grid\" ><div class=\"panel-grid-core\"><div id=\"pgc-436-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell  \" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style\" style=\"background: url(&quot;false&quot;) !important; background-position: left top !important; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: auto !important; background-attachment: scroll !important;\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sybil Ammons<\/strong><br \/>\nCoroner<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"panel-widget-style\" style=\"background: url(&quot;false&quot;) !important; background-position: left top !important; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: auto !important; background-attachment: scroll !important;\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stewartcountyga.gov\/stcowp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/coronersybiammons-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/ ><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-436-1\"  class=\"panel-grid\" ><div class=\"panel-grid-core\"><div id=\"pgc-436-1-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell  \" ><\/div><div id=\"pgc-436-1-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style\" style=\"background: url(&quot;false&quot;) !important; background-position: left top !important; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: auto !important; background-attachment: scroll !important;\" ><hr \/><h1>Stewart County Coroner<\/h1><h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The coroner is responsible for holding an inquest into the cause of death in cases in which a person dies (1) as a result of violence, suicide, or casualty; (2) suddenly when in apparent good health; (3) when unattended by a physician; or (4) in any suspicious or unusual manner.<\/span><\/h3><h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Upon receiving notice of death under any of the above circumstances, the coroner is to take charge of the body immediately and summon a medical examiner and peace officer. Together, they must make an inquiry into the cause and manner of death. The medical examiner performs a postmortem examination or an autopsy and reports the findings of Investigation. Unless there has been a finding of foul play, a dead body must be released to the next of kin within 24 hours of demand.<\/span><\/h3><h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\">(quoted from: Hudson, Betty and Hardy, Paul, Handbook for Georgia County Commissioners. Athens: Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia, 2002, p. 74.)<\/span><\/h3><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-436-1-2\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sybil Ammons Coroner Stewart County CoronerThe coroner is responsible for holding an inquest into the cause of death in cases in which a person dies (1) as a result of violence, suicide, or casualty; (2) suddenly when in apparent good health; (3) when unattended by a physician; or (4) in any suspicious or unusual manner.Upon<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stewartcountyga.gov\/?page_id=436\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stewartcountyga.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stewartcountyga.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stewartcountyga.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stewartcountyga.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stewartcountyga.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stewartcountyga.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/stewartcountyga.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stewartcountyga.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stewartcountyga.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stewartcountyga.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}