The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-09-09
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, September 9, 1903.
Synopsis Of the Jury Law.

the County Treasurer and the Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas of
each County in this State shall per-
form the duties hereinafter set forth.
Sec. 8. That of the list so pre-
pared, the County Auditor, County
Treasurer and Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas, shall cause the names
to be written, each one on separate
paper or ballot, so as to resemble
each other as much as possible and
so folded that the name written
thereon shall not be visible on the
outside, and shall place them, with
the said list, in q strong and sub.
stantial box, without appertures or
openings when closed Ito be known
as the s'Jury Box") to be furnished
to them by the County Supervisor OF
their County for that purpose, and of
such size and shape IS that, when
such separate papers or ballots shall
have been folded and placed therein
as above required, they may be easily
shaken mp and about and we'll mixed
therein, and it shall be the duty of
the Clerk of the Court to keep said
jury box in his custody. The said
jury box shall be kept securely lock-
ed with three separate and strong
locks, each lock being different and
distinct from the other two and re-
quiring one key peculiar to itself in
order to be unlocked and the key to
one of said three locks shall be kept
by the County Auditor himself, the
key to another of said three locks by
the County Treasurer himself, and
the key to the third of said three
locks By the Cletk of the Court of
Common Pleas himself, so that no
two of them shall keep similar key
or similar keys to the same lock, and
so that all three of them must be
present together at the same time
and place in order to lock or unlock
and open the said jury box. At the
same time they shall place in special
apartment in the said jury box
(which special apartment shall be
known as 'sthe tales box") the names
of not less than one hundred nor
more than four hundred of such Of
the persons whose names appear on
said list as reside within five miles
Of the Court House, from which
tales box shall be drawn Jurors to
supply deficiencies arising from any
cause or emergency during the sit
I. -
ting Of the Court. The names of
persons placed in said tales box shall
be also placed in the said jury box.
Sec. S. That not less than ten
nor more than twenty days before
the first day of each week of any
regular or special term OF the Cir
cult Courts the said the County
Auditor, the County Treasurer and
the Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas shall proceed in like manner to
draw thirty-s;x petit jurors, to serve
for such week only: Provided, That
whenever q jury shall be charged
with a case, such jury shall not be
discharged by reason of anything in
this section contained until verdict
shall be found or mistrial ordered
in such case. Immediately after
such petit jurors are drawn the Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas shall
issue his writ of venire facias for
such petit jurors, requiring their
attendance on the first day Of the
week for which they have been
drawn; and the said writ of venire
fscias shall be forthwith delivered to
the Sheriff of the County: Provided,
That in case any term of Court is to
be held within less than twenty days
after the approval of this Act, such
petit Jurors may, nevertheless, be
drawn for such term of Court.
Sec. 6. That the said drawing
shall be made openly and publicly in
the Office of the Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas, and the County