15-6-12 G
*** CODE SECTION ***  12/03/01
    
  15-6-12.
    
  (a) The jurisdiction of the judges of the superior courts is
  coextensive with the limits of this state; they may act in circuits
  other than their own when authorized by law, but they are not
  compelled to alternate unless required by law.
    
  (b) The authority granted in subsection (a) of this Code section to
  each judge in his own circuit may be exercised by any judge of
  another circuit whenever the resident judge is absent from the
  circuit so that the business thereof cannot be done as speedily as
  necessary, or is indisposed, or is interested in a case, or is
  laboring under any disqualification or inability to serve, or in
  case the circuit is, from any cause, without a judge.  The grounds
  for the exercise of such authority should be shown.