Chap. 238.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5995 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, in relation to service of jurors. [H B 137]

Approved March 17, 1928

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, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5995. 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
exception to any such juror on this ground shall be allowed after
he is sworn. If, however, exception be duly made, and such person
is permitted 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 attend 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, tipon request, be discharged.