Chap. 266.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5995 of the Code of Vir-
ginia as amended by an act approved February 25, 1920. [S B 268]

Approved March 15, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion fifty-nine hundred and ninety-five of.the Code of Virginia, as
amended by an act approved February twenty-fifth, nineteen hun-
dred and twenty, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5995. No person competent to serve as juror at more
than one term during the same year; in cities of fifty thousand
population no person compelled to serve more than two weeks in any
one year.—No person who has actually served as a petit juror at
any one term of a court shall be permitted to serve as a petit juror,
or a juror in any criminal case, at any other term of that court
during the same year, unless all the persons whose names are in the
jury box have been drawn to serve during such year, but no excep-
tion to any such juror on this ground shall be allowed after he is
sworn. If, however, exception be duly made, and such person is per-
mitted to serve in contravention of this section, it shall of itself
constitute reversible error. In cities having a population of fifty
thousand or more, no person shall be compelled to serve as a grand
or petit juror, or both, for more than two weeks in any one year,
unless at the time of the expiration of the two weeks the juror be
actually engaged in the trial of a case, but at the end of such case
the juror shall upon request be discharged.