Preparation of special list and drawing of special jury in certain circumstances.

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Whenever at any term of the circuit court the array of grand and petit jurors summoned to attend is held to have been irregularly or illegally drawn or summoned, the presiding judge shall immediately order, in either case, that the jury commissioners of the county shall immediately prepare a special list and, in open court, draw a special venire of grand or petit jurors or draw a special jury from the last list prepared according to law. Any special grand or petit jury so drawn and summoned shall serve instead of those discharged at this term.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 38-71; 1952 Code Section 38-71; 1942 Code Section 621; 1932 Code Section 621; Civ. P. '22 Section 561; 1912 (27) 772; 1976 Code Section 14-7-330; 1986 Act No. 340, Section 1, eff March 10, 1986.

Editor's Note

Provisions relative to disposition of names of those who are drawn and who serve as jurors, which formerly appeared in this section, can now be found in Section 14-7-250.


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