The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-10-31


ers or of said Board, or to notify
any one what name or names are on
or constitute the panel or any part
of it for tn court, or any name or
names drawn from the jury box for
service in any case pending in court,
or to fail to perform any duty impos-
ed by this Act; and, upon conviction
thereof, they shall pay fine of not
less than forty dollars and be i'm
prisoned in the county jail not less.
than thirty days, one or both, in the
discretion of the court trying the
cause, and shall be removed from
office.
1t shall also be a contempt of
court punishable by the Circuit
Court upon it's own motion or upon
petition of the District Atorney-Gen-
eral, for any Jury Commissioner,
Circuit Court Clerk, or other person,
to open any jury box except as here
in provided, or to tamper with the
same, or to destroy deface, or re-
move without authority such box, or
to change, deface, or remove with
out authority any jury list, or to as
sist in or connive at any such acts.
or for any custodian of a jury box
or list to knowingly permit any such
act to be done.
Sec. is. Be it further enacted,
That the Circuit Judge shall have
the right and authority to remove
any or all of said Jury Commission
ers for incompetency, failure to per-
form their duties as required by law,
or corruption in Office, or for any
good and sufficient reason, upon Civ
ing five days notice to such Com
missioner or Commissioners of the
time and place of taking action
thereon and the grounds therefor.
Sec. 19. Be it further enacted,
That said Jury Commissioners shall
receive three dollars $3.50 each for
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engaged in making up the jury lists
or drawing jurors, and the same com
pensation to be paid the Chairman Of
the Board for his attendance upon
the Circuit Court upon the first day
of the term. While the board is in
actual session the Clerk shall receive
the same compensation. Their COM
pensation shall be paid from the
county treasury upon the certificate
of the Circuit Judge that such ser
vices have been rendered.
Sec. 90 Be it further enacted,
That whenever jury is demanded in
the Chancery Court, the Chancellor
may call upon the Clerk of said
Board to bring said jury box into his
court, and in open court he may draw,
or cause to be drawn, panel as pro-
vided herein; provided however, he
may in his discretion cause a jury to
law, the provisions of this act as to-
the Chancellor not being mandatory.
Sec. Fl. Be it further enacted,
That in all counties in this state
within which the provisions of this
Act are applicable, having also a
Criminal Judge or Judge of Coun-
| ty Criminal Court, this Act shall APP
ply in such Criminal Courts, except
the panel for the Criminal Court
shall not be drawn by the Board and
delivered on the first day of the term
by the Chairman as in the Circuit
Court, but such panel shall be drawn
IN open court by the Criminal Judge;
and if the jurors so drawn are SO in
accessible as to delay the business OF
the court by waiting tc have them
present, then suc,l Criminal Judge
may designate other persons to be
summoned to complete such panel or
Criminal Judges are vested with the
same powers and shall perform the
same duties and be subject to the
same limitations as provided herein
for Circuit Judges, except that tho
power to remove such Commissioners
shall be in the Circuit Judges alone.
Sec. %. Be it further enacted,
That in the absence of fraud, no ir-
regularity with respect to the provi-
Isions of this Act shall affect the valid
Iity OF any actions of the grand jury Il
this Act has been substantially COM
lplied with, or the validity of any ver-
dict rendered by trial jury, unless
such irregularity has been specially
pointed out and exception taken
Thereto before the jury is sworn.
Sec. %. Be 1t further enacted.
That all laws and parts Of laws in
conflict with this Act are hereby re-
pealed.
i Sec. "a. Be 1t further enacted,
That this Act take effect from and
after its passage. the public welfare