Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-03-31

SEC. II When jury, after due and thor
ouSh elaboration upon any cause, return into
court, without having agreed upon verdict,
tho court may state anew tho evidence, or
any part of it, and explain to them anew tho
law applicable to the case, and may scud
them out fcr further delhoration, but if they
return s,s%nd time without having agreed
upon vc.s%Ict, they shall not ba sent out
again wltht"t their own consent, unless they
sh1 u ask fro IL the court some further cxplaua.
ton of the law.
SIC. III. That the said jury commissions
crs, appointed by the Governor, shall receive
for their services three dollars per day for
every days actual service in performing the
| duties imp sed by this act; such number of
day not t. exceed the number of days the
oourt for such county shall be in session, to-
gcther with live days to complete the lists
and draw the Jurors; to be paid out Of the
| treasury Of their respective counties
SEC. %. The jury in any case may, at the
request of either party, be taken to view
the place or premises in question, or any prop
erty,matter or thing relating to the controversy
between the parties, ,whcni tappcars to the court
that such view IS necessary to just decisions
Prora1cd, The party making the motion ad
vances anm sufficient to pay the actua! OK,
penses OF Tie jury aud the o!ccrs who attend
them in taking the view, which expenses
shall be afterwards taxed like other legal
| costs, il til" party who advanced them pre-
walls in the suit.
SEC. 30 If a person duly drawn and sum
moned to attend as juror in any court neg
lc"tc to attend without sufficient excuse, he
Shall pay n i.nn not exceeding twenty dollars
which shall be imposed by the court to which
the juror WAS summoned, and shall be paid
Into the county treasury.
SEC. 30. Whrn by neglect Of any of the
duties rcqniIed hy this act TO be performed
by any Of the others or persons herein men
iicncd, the jurors to bo returned from any
placc arc net duly drawn aud summoned to
attend the court, every person guilty of such
neglect sh''. pay a fine not exceeding one
hundred doars to be imposed by the same
court, to the lsc Of the county in which the
| offence was 4.n:rlittcd.
SGc. 3 -IN ). 4. h"A.i af jut,,conluAissinn-
| ors sl1ll NS.guity OF! fraud either by prac
tcing on the jury box previously to draft,
or IN drawing juror, or in returning into
the box the name of any jurnr which had
bcen lawfully drawn out, and drawing or
substituting another in his stead, or in any
other wny in the drawing of Jurors, he shall
be punished by tinc not exceeding one hun.
drcd dollars or be imprisoned not exceeding
two years in the State ponitentisry.
SEC. 32. Nothing contained in this net
shall affect the power and duty Of coroncrs,
justices Of the pracc or trial justices, to sum
mon and impanncl jurors, when authorized
by other provisions Of law.
SEC. 33 The clerk of the Court of Gen.
SnsglDNs N lns. tb,, -
teen days before the commencement of the
first term OF the court in each year, shall is
sue writs Of ucnire /,tctus in each county for
eighteen grand jurors to be returned to that
court, aho shall be held to serve at each
term thereof throughout tho year. and until
another grand juror is impapnoled in their
stead
SEC ST. Grand jurors shall be drawn, sum.
moned and returned in the same manner as
Jurors for trials and when drawn at the same
time as Jurors for trials, the persons whose
names are first drawn to the number rcbuir.
ed, shall be returned as grand jurors, and
those afterwards drawn, to the number re-
qnired, shall be jurors for trials.
SEC. 30. In case Of, deficiency Of grand
Jurors in any court, writs of ccaire fucias
may be issued by the sheriff of the county in
which said court is held, to return forthwith
such further numbcr of grand Jurors from
tho bystnndcrs as may be required
SEC. 36. No more than thirty-two persons
to serve at pct;s Jurors shall be drawn and
summoned to attend, at cue and at the same
time, az any court, unless the court shall 9th.
crwisc order.
SEC. 81. That any person who shall here
after bo arragned for the crime Of murder,
manslaughtor, burglary, arson or rape, shall
be entitled to all the incidents of an arragn
mont, and to pcrcmptory challenges, not OK
cecding twenty, and tho State, in such cases,
sh'S be entitled TO peremptory challenges,
not exceeding two, in tho manner heretofore
prescribed by law. And any person who
shall be indicted for any crime or offence 9th.
er than those above enumerated, shall have
tho right to pcremptory challenges Of five,
and the State, in such cases shall be entitled
to percmptory challenges not exceeding two
SEC. 3S That an act entitled "An act to
regulate the manner Of drawing jurics,' ap
proved the Goth day of September, A. d. |
1868, and the act entitled "An act to amend |
an act entitled an act to regulate the drawing
OF juries," approved tho 23d day of March,
1863, and all uthcr acts, or parts of acts in
any way conflicting with the provisions of
this act be, and the sano is hereby, repealed |
SEQ 80. That thus act shall tako effect
and have tho full power of law, from and af. |
ter its passage.
Approved tho 10th day of March, a. D.
An Act to amend mn net entitled "An act to