Chap. 8.—aAn ACT to amend and re-enact. section 3139 of the Code, 1887, in
reference to who liable to serve as jurors.

Approved July 28, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section three
thousand one hundred and thirty-nine of the Code of Vi irginia, eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven, in reference to who liable to serve as jurors,
be amended and re-cnacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3139. Who qualified to serve as jurors.—Al]l male citizens twenty-one
vears of age and not over sixty, who shall have been residents of this
State twelve months and of the county, city, or town in which they reside
three months next preceding their being summoned to serve as such, and
competent in other respects except as hercinafter provided, shall remain
und be Hable to serve as Jurors: provided, that no olficer, soldie er, seaman,
or marine of the United States army or navy shall be considered a resi-
lent of this State by reason of being stationed herein, nor shall an inmate
of any charitable institution be qualified to serve as jurors : provided, also,
that the following persons shall be excluded trom serving as jurors :
First, idiots and lunatics; second, persons convicted of bribery, perjury,
mbezzlement of pubhe funds, treason, felony, or petit larceny.

This is an emergency act under section fifty of the Constitution.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.