Part 8 (1/2)
A. They must be freeholders, twenty-one years old.
Q. Who are exempt from sitting on a jury?
A. Persons over sixty years of age, postmasters and many others.
Q. How many are summoned for a justice court and by whom?
A. Twelve, and by a constable; and from these twelve six are drawn.
Q. Who selects and notifies the jury for laying out roads,
A. By the coroner.
Q. How is the pet.i.t jury list obtained?
A. The supervisors, town clerk, and a.s.sessors of the several towns of the county make out a list of the names of those persons qualified, and the names in the several lists are written upon slips of paper of the same size and deposited in a box in the county clerk's office.
Q. How is the grand jury list obtained?
A. The supervisors apportion the number (three hundred,) among the several towns in the county in proportion to population. Each supervisor selects from his town the number to which it is ent.i.tled; and these several lists are written upon slips of paper as before and deposited in a box in the county clerk's office.
Q. How frequently are the lists changed?
A. The pet.i.t jury list is changed once in three years; the grand jury list every year.
Q. When are these juries drawn?
A. Not more than twenty, nor less than fourteen days before the sitting of the court for which they are drawn.
Q. How many are drawn?
A. Thirty-six pet.i.t and twenty-four grand jurors.
Q. How is the jury for each individual case obtained?
A. The thirty-six pet.i.t jurors' names are put into a box and the names are drawn out until twelve satisfactory persons are obtained.
Q How many of this jury must agree in a verdict?
A. The twelve must agree.
Q. Who is the officer authorized to report the verdict?
A The person they have elected foreman.
Q. In case the twelve jurymen do not agree, what will be done?
A. When the judge is satisfied that the jury will not agree he will discharge them.