Chap. 195.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3139 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended and re-enacted by act approved July 28, 1902, in relation to who
liable to serve as jurors.

Approved May 5, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
three thousand one hundred and thirty-nine of the Code of Virginia,
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended and re-enacted by act
approved July twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled an
act to amend and re-enact section three thousand one hundred and
thirty-nine of the Code of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, in ref-
erence to who liable to serve as jurors, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

$3139. Who qualified to serve as jurors.—All male citizens over
twenty-one vears of age. who shall have been residents of this State
twelve months and of the county, city, or town in which they reside
three months next preceding their being summoned to serve as such,
and competent in other respects except as hereinafter provided, shall
remain and be liable to serve as jurors: provided, that no officer, sol-
dier, seaman, or marine of the United States army or navy shall be
considered a resident of this State by reason of being stationed herein,
nor shall an inmate of any charitable institution be qualified to serve
as jurors: provided, also, that the following persons shall be excluded
from serving as jurors: First, idiots and lunatics; second, persons
convicted of bribery, perjury, embezzlement of public funds, treason,
felony, or petit larceny.

2. Provided, that no male citizen over sixty years of age shall
be compelled to serve as juror.

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