Chap. 87.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6006 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, in relation to obtaining jurors for the trial of civil cases. [S B 17]

Approved March 2, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion six thousand and six of the Code of Virginia, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 6006. When jurors may be obtained from another county
or corporation for the trial of civil cases; how the venire facias directed
and executed; how jury formed.—In any civil case in any court to be
tried by a jury, the court, or the judge thereof in vacation, may, in
its or his discretion, upon motion of either party after reasonable
notice to the adverse party or parties if it or he be satisfied that a fair
and impartial trial cannot be had by a jury selected from the county
or corporation in which the trial is to be, order such number of persons
(not less than nine), qualified to serve on juries, as the court or judge
may prescribe, to be summoned from an adjacent county or city.
A writ of venire facias shall be issued for the purpose, directed to the
sheriff or sergeant, to summon the number of persons specified, from
a list to be furnished either by the trial judge or by the judge of the ©
circuit or corporation court of the county or city from which the
jurors are to be summoned, and from those summoned a jury shall
be selected in the manner provided by section fifty-nine hundred and
ninety-six of this Code. <A writ of venire facias awarded under this
section may be directed to and executed by the sheriff or sergeant of
the county or corporation in which the trial is to be had, or from which
the jurors are to come.