Volume 21 · 167
Public Law 46–137
to further amend the act entitled “An act to reorganize the courts of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and to amend section eight hundred and sixty-one of chapter twenty-four of the Revised Statutes of the District of Columbia.
Approved June 8, 1880
Statutory text
An act
to further amend the act entitled “An act to reorganize the courts of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and to amend section eight hundred and sixty-one of chapter twenty-four of the Revised Statutes of the District of Columbia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That any justice of the supreme FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 137, 161. 1880. court of the District of Columbia holding a term of the circuit Court for said District (whenever the condition of the business in such circuit court and in the criminal court, in the opinion of the general term of said supreme court, may render it proper and expedient so to do), may hold sittings for the trial of such criminal cases depending in the criminal court as the justice presiding therein may assign for that purpose, and may employ the petit juries drawn for such circuit court for such trials; and such sittings may be held during the regular sessions of the criminal court, or, in the recess thereof, during the term of such circuit court; and the business done at such sittings shall be recorded in the minutes of the criminal court.
Sec. 2.
That section eight hundred and sixty-one of chapter twenty-four
R. S. D. C., 861.
of the Revised Statutes of the District of Columbia be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
“Sec. 861.
It shall be good cause of principal challenge to any person called to serve as a tales man on a petit jury at any term of the criminal or circuit courts of the District of Columbia, that lie has served as such juror in the trial of a cause in either of said courts at any time within one year next, before his being so called and challenged. and whenever a paper, on which is written the name of any person, shall be drawn from the jury-box, and such person by reason of being challenged, or for any other reason, shall not serve as a juror at the term for or at which he shall have been so drawn, the clerk of the supreme court of the District of Columbia (unless otherwise ordered by the justice presiding in the court for which such name was drawn) shall replace the said paper in the jury-box, folded or rolled up in the manner prescribed by section eight hundred and fifty-three of said chapter, subject to be drawn again from said jury-box with the other papers therein.”
Sec. 3.
All laws and parts of laws inconsistent herewith are herewith
Repeals.
repealed.
Approved, June 8, 1880.