Chap. 119.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 23d section of chap-
ter 158 of the Code of 1873, in reference to Special Juries.

Approved March 24, 1874,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section
twenty-three of chapter one hundred and fifty-eight of the
Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Ҥ 23. Any court may allow a special jury in any case to
be formed in the following manner, viz: A panel shall be
made of twenty qualified voters, to be summoned by an order
of the court for that purpose, free from just cause of excep-
tion, from which sixteen shall be chosen by lot; the parties
thereupon, beginning with the plaintiff’s of commonwealth’s
attorney, when the commonwealth is a party, shall alternatel
strike off one until the number be reduced to twelve, whic
number shall compose the jury for the trial of the case; but
should the said parties, or either of them, fail to strike from
the panel the number to be stricken off as above provided,
then the jury for the trial sball be composed of twelve of
those not so stricken off, to be selected by lot. The said
jurors shall be summoned from a list to be furnished the offi-
cer Sy the judge of the court.”

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.