CHAP. 446.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3977 of the Code of
Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to grand jurors.
(

S. B. 237.)
Approved March 21, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirty-nine hundred and seventy-seven of the Code of
Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to grand jurors,
be, and the same is, hereby amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:
Section 3977. A regular grand jury shall consist of not less
than nine nor more than twelve persons, and a special grand
jury of not less than six nor more than nine persons. Each
grand juror shall be a citizen of this State, twenty-one years
of age, and shal] have been a resident of this State two years,
and of the county or corporation in which the court is to be
held one year, and in other respects a qualified juror, and not a
constable, overseer of a road, and, when the grand juror is for
a circuit court of a county, not an inhabitant of a city.