Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-03-25
Acts Of the General Assembly.

reference to the drawing, empanneling
aud term of service of juries.
SECTION l. Be ii enacted by tho Senate
aud House of Representatives of the State
of South Carolina, now met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by tho authority Of
the same,
That hereafter the Board of Jury Com
missioners in the several counties ip this
State shall, in making up their annual jury
lists IN their respective counties, put upon
their lists tho nance of all such persons as
tho said Board shall deem competent and
free from all legal exceptions, without re-
gard to whether such persons 30 placed
upon said jury lists live within FIVE miles of
the Court House or more than Eve miles
from the Court House.
SEQ. 2. That the grand and petit Jurors
drawn from said lists, as hereinbefore pre-
scrbed, shall be summoned by the Sheriff,
and shall attend and serve according to tho
exigenoy of tho summons.
SEQ. 3. That hereafter the Clerks of the
Courts in tho several counties in this State
in empauneling Juries No. and No. 2 for
the trial Of causes in the Courts of Common
Pleas shall place tho names Of all tho petit
Jurors 10 attendance upon the courts, writ
ten or printed on slips of paper of tho came
size, into hat or box, aud therefrom shall
draw, Rs in the trial of felonies in the Court
Of Sessions, and tho first twelve 10 drawn
shall constitute Jury No. !, and the next
twelve go drawn shall constitute Jury No.
2, aud those remaining undrawn shall be
tales jurors, who shall be drawn in like
manner when needed in the progress Of tho
Court.
SEQ. d. That from and after the first
day of Juno next, whenever the terms of
the Courts of General Sessions and Common
Pleas in the Counties of Edgefcd, Barn
well, Marion, Aiken, williamsburg, Hamp
ton and Collector shall be for two or more
weeks, no petit juror shall be required to
serve moro than Que week at auy term of
tho said Courts, that thirty six jurors shall
be drawn in the manner provided by law,
to serve fer tho first week, and like uum
Der shall be 80 drawn to serve for each
subsequent week Of each torn of said
Courts: Provided, that whenever Jury
shall be churged with case such Jury shall
not be discharged by reason of anything in
this act contained until verdict shall have
been found or a mistrial ordered in such
case. That separate writs of vcnire shall
issue for the jurors drawn to serve for each
week of said terms of Court.
SEC. S. That in case at any time after
tho passage Of this act it shall be brought
to the attention of the resident Circuit
Judge Of auy circuit that an irrcgularity
has occurred in the drawing of juries for
any Circuit Court within his circuit, or
that any act has been done whereby the
validity of any juries drawn or to be drawn
may be questioned, it shall be lawful for
such Circuit Judge to issue his order to
th Bourd of Jury Commissioners of the
county for which said Circuit Court shall
bc held at least fifteen days before the
biting thereof to proceed TO drag
jurors for such term or to take suoh
measures Us may be necessary to correct
such error.
SEC. g. That oil acts and parts of acts
inconsistent with this act are hereby re.
pealed.
Approved February 20, 1880.
AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act
to establish uniformity in the scssions of
the Circuit Courts" approved 9th Juno,
A. D. 1917, so far as relates to the Cir
cult Courts for tho County of lIdgeGeld
and the Circuit Courts for the Eighth
Circuit.
SECTION !. BE 1t enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
of South Carolina, now met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by the authority of
tho aame
That on not entitled "An act to establish
uniformity in the sessions OF the Circuit
Courts" approved June 9th, 1877, be, and
the same is hereby, amended by striking
out all Of Section S which relates to the
sittings of Courts at Edgefeld, in Edgefeld
County, and insert in lieu thereof tho fol-
lowing, to wit: The Court of General Scs-
sions at Eegc6eld, for the County of Edge
field, on the first Monday in March, third
Monday in juno and first Monday in Octo
Der, and tho Court of Common Pleas at the
same place on second Monday in March
and second Monday in October.
SEC. 2. The said oct to DO further
amended as follows, to wit: Strike out SEQ
tion 8 of said act and insert in lieu thereof
che following: Section 8. Tho Circuit
Courts of the Eighth Circuit shall bo held as
follows: The Court of General Session at Alb
bevillc, for the County Of Abbevillc, on the
first Mondays in February and June and
the third Monday in February and June
and third Monday in October, and the
Court of Common Pleas ut the samo place
On the Wednesday following the first Mon.
day in February and the third Monday in
October. The Court of Genoral Sessions
at Anderson, for the County Of Anderson,
on the fourth Monday in February, the