The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-02-27
LAWS RELATING TO Turtles
changes Made by the Leeis1a-
ture of Interest to All the Peo-
ple

~hanges Made by the Leeis1a-
ture of Interest to All the Peo-
pie.
Inc Legislature passed three import
ant measures relating to the iury sys-
tenn of the State. One of these was
Mr.. Dominicks bill to validate oll
JuTies for the spring term of court
whether drawn regularly or irregular
Another was that introduced NV
senator Applet to further regulate the
drawing OF grand jurors, etc. The law
now requires six members of The grand
jury TO be drawn at the fall term of
court TO serve for the ensuing wear
In case Judge is sick and unable TO
hold court, or IN case of other contin-
gcnCies, there may be complications
as to the selection of the grand iurv
The act which will remedy that state
OF affairs reads:
Section |. That whenever for any
cause, such as the quashng of the ar
ray, or there being no court at the fail
term, there has heretofore been, or
snail hereafter be, a failure to draw
lhc names OF six members of any
grand jury for any county to serve on
the grand jury for that county for the
lneh ensuing year, us required by law,
there shall be drawn, at the proper
'lmc Tor drawing the grand jury, Is
names from the jury box instead of II;
ana the said 8 persons, whose names
are 80 drawn, shall be summoned. and
shall serve as the grand Jury for the
year III question, and shall be the law
ful grand jury for such county for that
year, and until their successors be
drawn, summoned and qualified accord.
ing to law.
Sec. 2. That when the Judge, cn-
titled TO preside, fails TO attend and to
hold the fall or last term of the court
OF common pleas and general sessions
Tor any county, the clerk of the court
shall have the right, and is required
hereby, to make the drawing from the
Outgoing grand jury, that is to say.
from the grand jury for the then cur
rent year, of the names of the six
members who shall serve as part of
the grand jury for the then ensuing
year, with the same force and effec. as
II the names of the said six grand
jurors had been drawn in the presence
vi the plcSioluS Judge.
The most important change in the
jury system will be that brought about
by the measure introduced by Mr..
Croft, of Aiken. 1t merely regulates
the method of " striking" names from
lists prepared IN trials in the court
Of common pleas. This act, which
was approved by the Governor Feb. 10,
reads:
Section /. That in the trial of all
actions at law in the court of common
pleas, and issues ordered to be framed
by the judge in equity cases in said
courts, it shall be the duty of the clerk
to furnish the parties or their attorneys
with list of 20 of the jurors to be
drawn and selected by ballot from the
whole number of jurors who are IN at.
tendance, the names of said lists to be
numbered from to 20, and be stricken
! off by numbers in the same manner as
the regular panels of Jurors in said
courts have been heretofore formed,
from which said list the parties or their
attorneys shall altcrnativcly strike,
until there shall be but II left, which
shall constitute the jury to try the
case or issue. In all cases the plaintiff
shall have the first strike, and iu all
civil cases hereafter tried in the courts
of common pleas of this State any
party shall have the right to demand
panel of 20 competent and impartial
jurors from which to strike a Jury.
When the list aforesaid is prepared by
the clerk and presented to the parties
or their attorneys, objections for cause
must be made before striking and if
any objections are sustained the clerk
must fill up the list before stricken.
Sec. 2. Should the jury charged with
any case be delayed in rendering their
verdict, so that they could not be rrcs.
ent to be drawn from in making the
list to form second Jury, then the
clerk shall present to the parties or
their attorneys list containing the
names of "a jurors to be drawn by the
clerk from the remaining jurors IN the
same manner as provided in section |
from which list the parties or their
attorneys shall alternately strike, as
provided in section of this act, until
II are left, which shall constitute the
jury.
sec. 3. In all cafes of default, where
it may be necessary to have the YER
dict of jury, or in the trial of cases
when the parties or their attorneys
shall waive the right to strike {. Jury,
, the clerk shall under the direction of
, the judge, draw and empanel jury,
/ who shall pass upon such matters as
may De submitted to them in default
cases, or the trial CT such cases, when
. the parties have waived the right to
, strike the jury, as stated in this sec
ton.
sec. d. This act shall go into effect
and be of force on the first day cf
September, 1901.
Sec. 8. All acts or parts of acts in
consistent with this act be. and The
same is hereby repealed.