Whenever the jury list of any county is destroyed by fire or other casualty or it is held by any court of competent jurisdiction that the jury list has been unlawfully prepared or is irregular or illegal, so as to render void the drawing of jurors therefrom, the jury commissioners shall prepare a special jury list for the county immediately in the manner herein prescribed from which special list grand and petit jurors are drawn for the courts of general sessions and common pleas for the county until the annual jury list has been prepared for the county as provided.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 38-65; 1952 Code Section 38-65; 1942 Code Section 630-1; 1933 (38) 285; 1971 (57) 83; 1985 Act No. 27, eff March 25, 1985; 1986 Act No. 340, Section 1, eff March 10, 1986.

Editor's Note

For a local provision that either the clerk or deputy may draw jurors in Aiken County, see Local Law Index.

Provisions relative to persons who may draw jurors, which formerly appeared in this section, can now be found in Section 14-7-230.

Effect of Amendment

The 1985 amendment added the provision allowing designation of a responsible and impartial person to draw the jurors if no child under ten or blind person is in the courtroom and deleted a provision relative to Barnwell County.

The 1986 amendment rewrote this section so as to incorporate provisions similar to those which formerly appeared in Section 14-7-310.