Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-07-20

first day of the term, and for the
Court of Common Pleas forthe Coun-l
tv of Charleston on the first and each
alternate week thereafter, and such
ether days as the Courts may order.
The petit jurors returned for the
Court of General Sessions for Charles
ton County shall serve for the term,
and the jurors returned for. the Court
Of Common Pleas for two weeks; the
Jurors for the Court of General Ses-
siions for all other Counties shall serve
for the term and for the term of the
Court of Common Pleas Immediately
following.
SEC. 9. The GENRES shall be deliv-.
cred 10 the Sheriff of the County, and
shall be served by him without delay
upon the Board Of Jury Commission
ers Of the County. ..
Sec. TO- Nothing contained in Che
preceding Sections shall prevent The
Clerk OF any Court Of Common Pleas
from issuing ve,aires for additional ju-
rors in term time, whenever it is nec-.
assary for the, convenient dispatch of
it's business, in which case the ve,rsres
shall be served and returned, and the
Jurors required to attend on such days.
as the Court shall direct.
See. II. All jurors, whether requir-
ed to serve on grand or petit jury,
shall be selected by drawing ballots
from the jury box, and the persons
whose names are borne on the ballots
so drawn shall be returned to serve as
jurors.
SEC. II. When jurors are to be
drawn, the Board of Jury Commis-
sioners shall attend at the Office Of
the Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas within and for that County, and
in the presence of the Clerk of the
Court, and the Sheriff Of the County,
shall shake up the names in the jury
box until they are we'll mixed, and
having unlocked said box, the said
Board of Jury Commissioners, in the
presence of the Clerk of the Court
and Sheriff of the County, shall pro-
ceed to draw therefrom, without see
ing the names written thereon, a num-
Der of ballots equal to the number Of
Jurors required. II person SO drawn
is exempted by law, or is unable, by
reason of sickness or absence from
home, to attend as juror, or. if he
has served as juror in any Court
within the year then next preceding,
his name shall be returned into'the
box, aud another drawn in his stead :
Provided, That if the Clerk and
Sheriff shall fail to attend, after due
notice, the Jury Commissioners shall
proceed without them, and the jury
so drawn shall be lawful.
SEC. l3. When any person is drawn
| and returned to serve as a juror in
any Court, the Board of Jury Com
missioners shall endorse on the bal
lot the date of the araft, and return
it into the box after the number Of
Jurors required have been drawn; and
whenever therei is a revision and re-
newal OF the ballots in the box, the
Board of Jury Commissioners shall
transfer to the new ballots the date
of all the drafts made within the year
then next precediro
Sec. ID. The time for drawing ju-
rors shall not be less than seven nor
more than fifteen days before the day
when thejurors are required to at
tend.
SEC. Is. The Sheriff. shall, at least
four days before the time when the
Jurors are required to attend, sum-
mon each person who is drawn, by
reading to him the veaire, with his
endorsement thereon of his having
been drawn, or by leaving at his
place of abode a written Notification
of his having been drawn, and of the
time and place of the sitting of the
Court at which keis to attend, and
shall make return of the ucnire, with
his dongs thereon, otbe Clerk of the
Court, before the opening or time
of holding the Court from which. it
issued
SEC. Is. On the day when the ju-
rors are summoned to attend at any
Court, the Clerk shall prepare list
Of their names arranged in alphabet
i,al order. The first twelve on the
list vino are not exempt, shall be
sworn and empannel!ed as Jury for
he trial of causes, and shall be call
ed the first jury. The next. twelve
on the list shall be sworn and empan-
nelled in like manner, and shalFbe.
called the second jury. y
SEC II. supernumerary jurors may
be excused, from time to time, until
wanted, and may be pat on either o.
the juries, as occasion requires, in the
place Of absen;ees. Nothing herein
contained shall prevent the transfer
ring of jurors from one jury to anoth-
er, when the convenience of the Court
or Of the Jurors requires it.
SEC. Is. Each jury, after being
thus empannelled, shall retire and
choose their foreman, or shall make
such choice upon retiring with the
frat cause with which they are charg-
ed; and whenever he'foreman is ab-
sent or excused from further service,
new foreman shall be chosen in like
manner.
SEC. 10. Nothing contained in the
preceding Sections shall apply to the
.empannelling of jurics in criminal
cases: but the Jurors shall be called,
sworn and empannelied ,apew for the
trial of each. case, according to, the
established practice, and their fore
man shall be appointed by3t Court
or by the jury when they retire to-
consider their verdict -. s.
Sec. 20. ,whenaby reason Of, chal-
lenge, on otherwise, a sufficient num-