The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-16

i 1 of these grounds shall be sufficient to
 quash the yenlre. or continue the cause. | No juror drawn or summoned under this
 Act shall be required to serve as such
 until the first Monday in January, 1910,
 and all jurors required for service up to l that time shall be drawn, summoned and empanelled and shall serve under the
 law in force prior to the passage of this
 Act
 Sec, IS. The court shall require all per
 sons named in the venire to be called,
 and shall then hear all excuses and
 claims of exemptions and disqualified
 lions, and after passing upon all of the
 excuses. or claims shall cause the names
 of all the jurors in attendance upon the
 court on that day. and who have not been
 excused by the court. to be written on
 separate slips of paper, or cards, and
 placed in hat. or box, and thereupon l the judge of the court must in open
 court draw from the hat. or box at
 terms requiring grand juries. the names
 of eighteen jurors, who shall be em-
 panelled and sworn as the grand jury for
 that term of the court, provided that only |
 that term, but if more than one grand | jury Is authorized by law for such term l then said jurors, so empanelled. shall be | the first grand jury for said term, and
 any subsequent grand jury, or grand ju-
 ries, for such term as is now or may hereafter be authorized by law must be ! drawn. summoned, sworn and empanelled
 as provided in this Act, during the said | term and the venre for same may con- l tain such number of names as the judge may deem necessary. The judge must 1 then proceed to draw from the hat or
 box, the names of twelve jurors who shall 1 be empanelled and sworn as petit jury
 No. l, and in like manner the judge must 1 draw and empane and swear petit jury
 No. ?, and when necessary, as many
 more jurors as the judge or judges of the l court may deem proper, all of whom shall
 serve as petit jurors for that week. unless ] discharged sooner by the court, and may l be required to serve till any case on trial ] is determined. If petit juries are needed
 for any week or weeks of the term after
 the first week the judge or any two judges
 of said court, If there are more than one l judge, shall, In like manner at such times
 as to him or them may seem best draw from the jury box such number of names
 not less than thirty for each of such | subsequent weeks, as will, in the discre- | tion of said judge judges, be sufficient for the week for which same are drawn.
 Provided that no name shall be drawn for any week after the first week of the term more than twenty days before the first day that such juror is to serve. The clerk shall issue venire
 for the jurors so drawn and they shall
 be summoned for their respective weeks
 and sworn and empanelled in the same
 manner as petit jurors for the first week
 of the term.
 Sec. 19. The names of all jurors drawn
 and summoned under this Act who are not empanelled shall forthwith be re-
 turned by the judge to the jury box in open court unless they are disqualified or exempt. The clerks of the several courts
 in which juries are empanelled shall from
 time to time, as the juries are empanelled
 certify to the jury commission the names
 of all persons empanelled, and the
 clerk of the commission, under the di-
 rection of the commission, shall note op- posite the names of such persons on the jury roll the date which and the court in which they were empanelled. The clerk of the several courts shall also certify to the jury commission the name of all persons who have been found by the court to be disqualified, or exempt, which fact shall be noted opposite their l respective names on the jury roll.
 Sec 20. Whenever there are not enough qualified jurors in attendance upon the court to form the jurles required, the judge of the court shall draw from the jury box the names of as many jurors as he may deem necessary, who are then
 within or reside within five miles of the
 court house or, if the court Is held In a
 city having more than ten thousand in-
 habitants by the Federal census, who re-
 side, or who are within the corporate limits of such city. to complete all juries
 then required and shall require the sheriff
 forthwith to summon all Jurors thus
 drawn to attend court when required
 and he may summon them by personal service, or by telephone. or by telegraph.
 or may in like manner order deputy, or
 special deputy to summon them, or may
 by telephone, or telegraph, direct a depu- ty to summon such jurors. The court shall then proceed to empanei, or com
 plete the empanelling of the jurors as
 provided in this Act. In the event the
 juries, either grand or petit, after being
 completed should be reduced from any cause to below the number required by
 law, the court shall in the manner pre-
 scribed in this Act supply all deficiencies
 in the manner of any such jury In the court.
 Sec 21 Wherever 1t shall appear to the judge drawing tales jurors for service Tn any case, that the names of persons liv- ing within five miles of the Court house, or within such city of 10000 lnhabltants, l have been exhausted, the judge may then draw from the jury box the names 0f such other persons as may be necessary, l and have them summoned, as tales jurors are summoned Whenever any judge of a 1 court, or of division of court, needing | Jurors either Grand or Petit. requires it, | he shall procure the jury box and the Key | thereto and shall, soon as he has | drawn therefrom the jurors required at | that time have the key and box delivered l to any other judge in that court house,
 who may then need it, and as soon as the i box has been used by all the judges need
 ing 1t, the last judge using 1t shall de- 1 liver the key thereof to the proper GUS l todian and cause the jury box to be re-
 turned to It's regular place of deposit. | Sec. P. Whenever a jury is required 10 l try any issue In a Probate Court, or | Chancery Court. or other Court Of the 1 county the Probate Judge or Chancellor
 or judge of such other court as the case | may be- shall procure the box and Key
 thereto and shall draw from the jury box | as many names as he may think neces- l sary, in no case less than twenty-four,
 and must immediately return the key and l box to the proper custodian thereon re- l spectiHely, and after each name is drawn | if shall not be returned to the jury box, 1 and there shall be no selection Of names, l and shall make and file record or the l drawing, and issue order to the sherlH