Except as otherwise expressly provided, the jury commissioners shall draw and summon at least seventy-five persons to serve as petit jurors to attend at one and the same time at any court. The chief administrative judge or the presiding judge of that circuit may increase or decrease the number of jurors drawn and summoned if he considers it necessary; however, at least seventy-five jurors must be drawn and summoned.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 38-64; 1952 Code Section 38-64; 1942 Code Section 611; 1932 Code Section 611; Civ. P. '22 Section 551; Civ. C. '12 Section 4020; 1902 (23) 1066; 1939 (41) 27; 1941 (42) 22, 70; 1943 (43) 263; 1986 Act No. 340, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 18, Section 2, eff April 22, 1993.

Effect of Amendment

The 1986 amendment rewrote this section so as to incorporate provisions similar to those which formerly appeared in Section 14-7-300.

The 1993 amendment substituted this section for one which read:

"Except as otherwise expressly provided, no more than seventy-five persons to serve as petit jurors may be drawn and summoned to attend at one and the same time at any court, unless the court shall so order."