Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-02-04
Acts Of tho Legislature.
An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act
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Representatives, now met md sitting in Gen.
era Assembly, and by the authority of tho
same That go much ,f an Act entitled San
Act to amend an Act entitled can Act
! to establish District Courts,Ns ratified the
twcnty.fir~t day of Scptembcr,@one thousand
eight HUNDRED aud sixtysix ,tns requires the
drawing and cmpnnclng of Grand Jurics for
the District Courts, be, aud the same is here.
by repealed, and all persons already drawn
and summoned to attend said District Courts
as Grand Jurors are hereby relieved of the
duty of 80 attending
II. That no prcscntmcnt of Grand Jury
shall be necessary in any case in the snid Ds.
trict Courts, but it shall be the duty Of the
Attorney General and Solicitors, after enquiry
into the facts Of each case, to prepare bills of
indictment and present the same, with the pa.
prrs pertaining thereto, to the District Judge
for his examination. who shall order the same
to be dockctcd for trial, if in his Judgment
the prosecution thereof be advisable.
Ill. That the Jurics in the District Courtshal
consist of ono jury Of eight Jurors at each
Qnarcy Session, and the vcnire therefor
shall consist of panel of sixteen and it
shall be the duty of the District Judge, at
each Quarterly Session, to order the drawing,
in open Court of tho Jurors to constitute the
panel of the vcnire for the succeeding term.
w That there shall be kcpta separate
jury Box for the District Courts, which shall
be flied from time to time, md the drawing
thcrcfrom be conducted in the same manner
as by law required for the Superior Courts
and IN reference to the snid Jurcs of the Dis
trict Courts, the manner of s,,mmonng them.
the duties and liabilities of the Officers of the
Court, and the penalties for no,l-attendancc,
and in all other respects the Jury law Of the
State shall apply.
V. That in drawing Jurors 10 constitute
the panel of the vcnirc, it shall bc compctcut
tor the District Judge to direct the rejection
| at the time of drawing Of the names of per.
sous who are known or believed to be dead,
not resident in the District, over seventy years
| Of age, or in any manner disabled from dis
charging the duties of Juror; and names
shall be rejected for the occasion and return
ell to the box Of persons who arc known to be
| in the pnnel for the term of the Superior
Court next ensuing the drawing, or who have
| served rs Jurors either in the Supreme or Dis
trict Courts within twelve months preceding
the drawing.
W. That to constitute the Jurics in the
District Courts for tile term next succeeding
tie passing of this Act, and for wliicl, the vo-
nirc has already been issued, tile District
Judge. shall order the drawing of sixteen from
the number of those summoned and in atten-
dance. which number so drawn shall consti-
tnte the pancl.for that term, and from them
shall be drawn those who shall serve as the
Jury of that term. And if in any District
such venirc shall not have been already issued,
the District Judge shall order special Court
for the drawing, and shall order the vcnirc in
| oTfnr rIon Nit ia. ~ .
VIZ. That in the District Court, each partv
in civil action, and the accused nnti the pros
ecu'ing officer in criminal matter, shall bc
entitled to challenge each two Jurors; and
the places Of those challenged shall be sup
piled from tho supcrnumcraries. An insnf
ficicnt number Of Jurors, ia any instance,
shall be supplied in like manner Us in tie gu
preme Court.
VIII. A traverse of an Indictment shall
| not, in the District Courts, of itself operate
to continue the case.
TX. That the concluding paragraph of the
eleventh Section in the words "and in the
District of Beaufort, where the Court shall
be held alternately at the Cour. House in the
town of Beaufort and at Lawtunville." be re-
pcalcd.
X. In civil causes tho defendant shall be
entitled to an Importance to the succeeding
Quarterly Term Of the Court.
nj. The Superior Court of Equity and the
District Court shall have concurrent ,urisdic
ton in all cases Of Equity, and the superior
Courts Of law and the District Court hall
have concurrent jurisdiction of all eases in
law. civil and criminal of which, by the Con.
stitntion tho said Districts Courts have ju.
risdiction.
XII. That inlall cases now commenced in
the District Court for services, where tho
amount due is over one hundred dollars. the
case shall bo transferred to the Court of Com.
mon Plcas
XII. Matters Of Equity pending in the
District Court shall bo heard BY the District
Judge Mt Quarterly Session, or at such other
time as, with his concurrence, the parties NAV