The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-01-15
The Laws IN Relation to Jurors

The manner In which petit Juror
are selected for the Circuit Cour
nduer the laws of Mississippi is a
follows.
"The tax assessor at the time q
making assessments each year is
required to make out a list of al
persons in the county qualified tc
4 serve as jurors and deliver said list
To the Chanccry Clerk. From this
list the Board Of Supervisors at its
first meeting the ensuing year, is re.
quired to select not less than 20O
nor more than 500 persons who are
regarded as men of good intelli-
gence, sound Judgment and fair
character, and shall take them as
nearly as conveniently may be, in
equal numbers from each supervi.
sors district OF the county, which
persons so selected shall constitute
the list Of those from whom the pc
tit jurors for the ensuing year shall
be drawn.
In making this list the Board of
Supervisors shall not select the
name of any person who served as a
regular juror at any term Of the
Circuit Court during the two pre-
ceeding years, and any person who
has served as q regular juror within
two years, may if called on to serve,
claim that as ground of exemption,
except as talesman or when sum-
moncd on special venure.
From the list as made out by the
Board of Supervisors, the Circuit
Clerk and Sheriff, in the presence
of the Chancery Clerk, shall at least
thirty days before the next term Of
court draw the Jurors for such term.
The names Of those not drawn from
the box shall constitute part of the
list for the next ensuing year. The
sheriff is required to summon those
drawn to serve at least five days be-
fore the term OF court, either by per-
sonal service or by leaving a written
notice at their usual places of
abode; and jurors who do not attend
shall be fined not exceeding one
hundred dollars, unless good cause
he shown the next term of court for
the non attendance.
GRAND JURORS
Are selected by the Board Of SUI
pervisors at least twenty days be-
fore each term of Circuit Court.
Twenty persons are selected, four
from each Supervisors district. They
are summoned by the sheriff in the
same manner rs petit jurors. anil
NAV be fined not exceeding 5000 for
non on-attendanee. No overseer Of q
public road shall serve on the grand
jury within twelve months of the
time when lie ceased to he such
overseer or which he Is overseer.
WHO ARE COMPETENT AND WHO ARE
EXEMPT AS JURORS.
Section 1861 of the Revised Code
defines what persons are competent
To serve as jurors, and Section 1862
states who are exempt from jury
service. Said sections apply to both
grand and petit jurors. They read
as follows:
SECTION 1861. All male citizens
Of the United States. and not being
under the age o: twenty-One years
nor over the age of sixty years, and
not having been convicted of any
Infamous crime, shall be qualified to
serve as jurors within the county of
their residence. But it shall be a
good cause to challenge tales juror
that he has served as such ia the
trial Of as many as three cases at
that or the last preceding term of
the court.
SEC. 1862. All officers in the
executive department of the State
government, all judges and officers
of the several State courts, all mem
hers of the Board OF Supervisors, all
physicians actually in practice. all
teachers and officers Of public
schools actually engaged in their
vocation, all keepers of public mills
and ferries and who personally
pursue those callings as their princi
pal business, all ministers of the
gospel and Jewish rabhis actually
engaged in their calling. ali officers
Of the government of the United
States, all lawyers practicing their
profession, all telegraph operators,
one apothecary 10 every store where
drugs and medicines are the princi-
pal articl,s for he shall he exempt
from serving as Jurors. All other
persons shall he liable t" serve as
jurors. unless excused by the court
for the time being on special cause
shown; but no tales juror shall be
compelled to serve two days success
fully, unless the case in which he is
empanellcd shall con inue longer
than one day. Grand jurors sha:I
serve until discharged by the court.
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