Chap. 320.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6000 of the Code of Virginia,
in relation to selection and peremptory challenge of jurors in civil cases.
| [H B 189]
Approved March 25, 1932

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

Section 6000. The court shall, on motion of either party in any suit,
or may of its own accord, examine on oath ay person who is called as
a juror therein to ascertain whether he i#felated to either party, or
has any interest in the cause, or has expressed or formed any opinion,
onks sensible of any bias or vuieludee theenr oa the party objecting
to any juror v7 uce any competent evidence in support of the
objection; and if it shall appear to the court that the juror does not
stand indifferent in the cause, another shall be drawn or called and
placed in his stead for the trial of that cause. And in every case the
plaintiff and defendant may each challenge one juror peremptorily,
where the jury consists either of five or of seven.