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Public Law 69–784
To amend section 204 of an Act entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia,” approved March 3, 1901, and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto.
Approved July 3, 1926
Statutory text
An Act
To amend section 204 of an Act entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia,” approved March 3, 1901, and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 204 of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia be, and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
Sec. 204.
Drawing of jurors.
For grand and petit, by commission to be monthly.
Ante, p. 741.
Drawing jurors: At least ten days before the first Tuesday of each month specified in section 202 when jury trials are to be had, said jury commission shall publicly break the seal of the jury box and proceed to draw therefrom, by lot and without previous examination, the names of such number of persons as the general term of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia may from time to time direct to serve as grand and petit jurors in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; and shall forthwith certify to the clerk of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia the names of the persons so drawn us jurors.
The distribution, assignment, reassignment, and attendance of said
Assignment, etc., of petit jurors.
petit jurors among the special terms of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia shall be in accordance with rules to be prescribed by said court.
At least ten days before the first Monday in January, the first
Quarterly drawings for police, juvenile, and oilier courts.
Monday in April, the first Monday in July, and the first Monday in October of each year the said jury commission shall likewise draw from the jury box the names of persons to serve as jurors in the police court and in the juvenile court of the District of Columbia in accordance with sections 45 and 46 of this code relating to the police
Vol. 31, p 1197.
court, and sections 14 and 15 of the Act of Congress approved March
Vol. 84, p. 75.
19, 1906, creating said juvenile court, and shall also draw from the jury box the names of persons to serve as jurors in any other court in the District of Columbia which hereafter may have cognizance of jury trials, and shall certify the respective list of jurors to the clerk of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
Approved, July 3, 1926.