Chap. 111.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 4852 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to grand juries. {S 124]

Approved March 5, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section forty-eight hundred fifty-two of the Code of
Virginia, as amended, be amended and reenacted as follows:

Section 4852. The judges of such courts shall annually, in the
month of June, July, or August, select from the male citizens of
each county of their respective circuits and in their several cities
sixty persons twenty-one years of age and upwards, of honesty,
intelligence, and good demeanor, and suitable in all respects to
serve as grand jurors who shall be the grand jurors for the county
or city from which they are selected for twelve months next there-
after. Such jurors shall be selected in each county from the several
magisterial districts of the county, and in each city from the several
wards of the cities in proportion to the population thereof, and the
judge making the selection shall at once furnish to the clerk of his
court in each county of his circuit or in his city a list of those
selected for that county or city. The clerk, not more than twenty
days before the commencement of each term of his court, at which
a regular grand jury is required, shall issue a venire facias to the
sheriff of his county, or sergeant of his city, commanding him to
sammon not less than five nor more than seven of the persons
selected as aforesaid (the number to be designated by the judge
of the court by an order entered of record) to be named in the writ,
to appear on the first day of the court to serve as grand jurors. No
such person shall be required to appear more than once until all
the others have been summoned once, nor more than twice until
the others have been twice summoned, and so on; provided, that
no male citizen over sixty years of age shall be compelled to serve
as a grand juror. The clerk, in issuing the venire facias, shall
apportion the grand jurors, as nearly as may be, ratably among the
magisterial districts or wards; but the circuit court of James City
County, or the judge thereof in vacation, shall select the grand
jurors for such court from said county and the city of Williamsburg
in such proportion from each as he may think proper.