Chap. 48.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 202 of
Code of Virginia, in regard to Juries in Criminal Oases.

Approved January 165, 1878.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section five of chapter two hundred and two of the
Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§5. The writ shall command the officer charged with its
execution to summon twenty-four persons of his county or
corporation, to be drawn from the lists provided for in sec-
tion three of chapter one hundred and fifty-eight of the Code
of Virginia (edition of ciShteen hundred and seventy-three),
to attend the court wherein the accused is to be tried, on the
first day of the next term of said court, or at such other time
as the court may direct. But if the name of any person is
drawn, who does not reside remote from the place where the
offence is charged to have been committed, it shall be re-
turned to the box and‘another drawn in lieu thereof. Ifa
person summoned under such writ fail to attend as required,
without sufficient excuse, he shall be fined by the court not
less than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars.

2. This act shall be in force from and after July the first,
eighteen hundred and seventy-five.