The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-03-25
THE LAWS OF THE STATE.
Acts Passed by the Legislature Mt the La, o
Session.

AN ACT Further to Amend the Law in
Reference to the Drawing, Empanel-
ling and Term of Service of Jurics.
BE it 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 the
same:
SECTION 1. That hereafter the Board
of Jury Commissioners in the several
counties in this State shall, in making up
their annual jury lists in their respective
counties, put upon their lists the names
of all such persons as the said Board
shall deem competent and free from all
legal exceptions, withou. regard to
whether such persons so placed upon said
jury lists live within FIVE miles of the
court house or more than five miles from
the court house.
SEC. 9. That the grand and petit Jurors
drawn from said lists, rs hereinbefore
prescribed, shall be summoned by the
Sheriff, and shall attend and serve ac-
cording to the exigcncy of the summons.
Sec. 3. That hereafter the Clerks of
the Courts in the several counties in this
State. in empanelling Juries No. and
No. for the trial of causes in the Courts
of Common Pleas, shall place the names
of all the petit jurors in attendance upon
the Courts, written or printed on slips of
paper of the same size, into hat or box,
and therefrom shall draw, as in the trial
of telonies in the Court of Sessions, and
the first twelve so drawn shall constitute
Jury No. l, and the next twelve so drawn
shall constitute Jury No. 2, and those
remaining undrawn shall be tales jurors,
who shall be drawn in like manner when
needed in the progress of tue Court.
SEC. 4. That from and after the first
day of June next, whenever the terms of
the Courts OF General Sessions and Com
mon Pleas in the counties of Edgefcld,
Barnwell, Marion, Aiken, Williamsburg,
Hampton and Colleton shall be for two
or more weeks, no petit juror shall be re-
quired to serve more than one week at
any term of the said Courts; that thirty.
six jurors shall be drawn in the manner
provided by law. to serve for the first
week, and like number shall be 50
drawn to serve for each subsequent week
of each term of said Courts: Provided,
That whenever jury shall be charged
with case such jury shall not be dis
charged by reason of anything in this
Act contained until verdict shall have
been found or mistrial ordered in such
case. That separate writs of ccnire shall
issue for the jurors drawn to serve for
each week of said terms of Court.
Sec. 5. That in case at any time after
the passage of this Act it shall be
brought to the attention of the resident
Circuit Judge of any circuit that an
irregularity 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 the Board of Jury Com
missioners of the County for which said
Circuit Court shall be held at least fifteen
days before the sitting thereof to proceed
to draw jurors for such term or to take
such measures rs may be necessary to
correct such error.
SEC. 6. All Acts or parts of Acts in
consistent with this Act are hereby re-
pealed.
Approved February 90, 1880.