, 1899-03-02
SESSION LAWS, 1899.
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DRAWING JURORS.
House Bill No. 81.

An Act to establish the qualification of jurors, and to provide for the
selection, drawing and impaneling jurors in the State of Wyo-
ming, in all cases, civil and criminal, including Grand Jurors,
and to repeal all laws inconsistent with the provisions of this Act.
Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
he be:
1. A male citizen of the United States, of the age of
twenty-one and not more than sixty years, who shall have
been "A resident of the State one year, and of the County,
ninety days, before being selected and returned.
2 In possession of his natural faculties, and of ordi-
nary intelligence and not decrepit.
3. Possessed of sufficient knowledge of the English
language.
L. Assessed on the last assessment roll of the County.
Seq y person is not competent to act as juror:
l. Who does not possess the qualifications prescribed
by the preceding section: or
3. Who has been convicted of malfeasance in Office, or
any felony or other high crime.
Secs. \ person is exempt from liability to act as juror
if he be:
1. A judicial, civil or military officer of the United
States or of this State.
3. \ person holding a county, township or town Office.
3. An attorneyatlaw in practice.
4. y minister of the gospel or Il priest of any denomi-
nation, or editor, following his profession.
.. y teacher in a university, college. academy or
6. a practicng physician or druggist actually en-
gagged in the business of dispensing medicines.
I. An officer, keeper or attendant of an aims house,
hospital, asylum or other charitable institution.
s. Engaged in the performance of duty as officer or
attendant OF the State prison, penitentiary or of a county
Jail.
o. An express agent, mail carrier. superintendent, EN-
poyee or operator of Il telegraph line doing a general tele-
graph business in the state.
10. An active member of the National Guard of Wyo-
ming, or an active member of a fire department of any city
or town in this State. The number of tiremen hereby ex-
empted must not exceed twenty.eicht, including officers for
each company organized: and such members from each com
pany must be selected from the roll of such company accord
ing to the seniority of membership, and a list containing
the names of such persons must be made out by the secre-
tary of each company and filed with the Clerk of the County
in which such company is organized, on the first Mondays
of December, March, June and September, in each year, and
any failure to file the list hereby required is considered a
waiver of such exemption.
IL. a superintendent, engineer or conductor on a rail
The court must discharge a person from serving as a
trial juror, in either of the following cases:
Where it satisfactorily appears that he is not compe-
tent; and
Where it satisfactorily appears that he is exempt, and
claims the benefit of the exemption.
Sec. 4. A Juror must not be excused by a court for a
slight or trivial cause, or for hardship or Inconvenience to
his business, but only when material injury or destruction
to his property, or of property intrusted to him, is threat
ened, or when his own health, or the sickness or death of a
member of his family requires his absence.
Sec. 5. If a person exempt from liability to act as a
Juror, as provided in Section 3, be summoned as a juror, he
may make and transmit his affidavit to the clerk of the court
for which he is summoned, stating his Office, occupation or
employment; and such affidavit must be delivered by the
Clerk to the Judge of the Court where the name of such
person is called, and if sufficient in substance, must be re-
ceived as evidence of his right to exemption and as an ex-
cuse for nonattendance in person. The affidavit must then
be filed by the clerk; Provided, that should any person who
is so exempt by law not deliver said affidavit as provided in
this section, the same shall be taken as a waiver of his right
to claim such exemption, and he shall thereafter be required
to appear upon the day for which said jury were summoned
and serve as a juror the same as if they were entitled to no
right of exemption.
Sec. 6. The Chairman of the County Commissioners,
the County Treasurer, and the County Clerk, of each Coun-
ty, must meet at the county seat of each county at the Office
of the County Clerk on the second Monday of January of
each year, for the purpose of making a list of persons to
serve as trial jurors for the ensuing year. If they fail to
meet on the day specified in this section, they must meet as
soon thereafter as practicable. The first meeting of such
officers for the purpose of making such list shall be held
within thirty days after this Act takes effect.
Sec. Z. AT the meeting, specified in the last section, the
officers present must select, from the last assessment roll
of the County, and make a list of the names of all persons
whom they believe to be competent and qualified to serve
as trial jurors, as herenbefore prescribed.
Sec. 8. A list of the names of the persons so selected,
showing the place of residence, and other proper additions,
veniently ascertained, must be made out, and signed by the
officers, or a majority of them. Within five days after the
meeting, the list must be delivered by those officers to the
Clerk of the District Court and filed by him in his Office.
Sec. 8. Immediately after the list has been delivered to
him, the Clerk of the District Court must prepare suitable
ballots, by writing the name of each person so selected, as
contained in the list, with his place of residence and other
additions, on a separate piece of paper. The ballots must be
uniform, as nearly as may be, in appearance; and the clerk
must deposit them in a box, kept for that purpose, which box
shall be known as, and plainly marked, Jury Box No. -
Sec. 10. Before depositing the ballots, the clerk must
destroy each ballot remaining in the box and remove all
contents therefrom.
Sec. II. The persons whose names are SO returned are
known as regular jurors, and must serve for one year, and
until other persons are selected and returned.
Sec. ~. Whenever the business of the District Court
requires the attendance of a trial jury for the trial Of civil
or criminal cases, and no jury is in attendance, the Court
may make an order directing a trial jury to be drawn and
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