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 38-67; 1952 Code Section 38-67; 1942 Code Section 613; 1932 Code Section 613; Civ. P. '22 Section 553; Civ. C. '12 Section 4022; 1902 (23) 1066; 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.

Effect of Amendment

The 1986 amendment rewrote this section so as to incorporate provisions similar to those which formerly appeared in Section 14-7-330.