Chap. 8.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3139 of the Code, 1887, in
reference to who liable to serve as jurors.

Approved July 28, 1902.

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 cighty-seven, in reference 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 twenty-one
years of age and not over sixty, 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, soldier, seaman,
or marine of the United States army or navy shall be considered a resi-
dent 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 trom serving as jurors:
Kirst, idiots and lunatics; second, persons convicted of bribery, perjury,
embezzlement of public funds, treason, felony, or petit larceny.

2. ‘This is an emergency act under section fifty of the Constitution.

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