Not less than fifteen days nor more than thirty-five days before the first day of any week in which more than one term of court requiring juries is scheduled in a county, the jury commissioners shall draw a number of petit jurors to serve as a jury pool, from which the courts shall draw panels of jurors as needed according to the following schedule:

1. (1) When two concurrent terms of court are scheduled, the commissioners shall draw ninety percent of the number of jurors which they would otherwise draw;
2. (2) When three concurrent terms of court are scheduled, the commissioners shall draw eighty percent of the number of jurors which they would otherwise draw;
3. (3) When four concurrent terms of court are scheduled, the commissioners shall draw seventy percent of the number of jurors which they would otherwise draw; or

4. (4) When five or more concurrent terms of court are scheduled, the commissioners shall draw fifty percent of the number of jurors which they would otherwise draw.

   The jury commissioners shall not exclude or disqualify any juror drawn.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 38-58; 1952 Code Section 38-58; 1942 Code Section 609; 1932 Code Section 609; Civ. P. '22 Section 549; Civ. C. '12 Section 4018; 1902 (23) 1066; 1921 (32) 276; 1939 (41) 27; 1941 (42) 70; 1986 Act No. 340, Section 1, eff March 10, 1986; 1992 Act No. 483, Section 1, eff July 1, 1992.

Editor's Note

Provisions relative to custody of jury box and keys thereto, which formerly appeared in this section, can now be found in Section 14-7-180.

Effect of Amendment

The 1986 amendment rewrote this section so as to incorporate provisions similar to those which formerly appeared in Section 14-7-235.

The 1992 amendment in the first paragraph changed "ten days" to "fifteen days".