Chap. 174.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4896 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to the selection and summoning of jurors.
[S B 328]
Approved March 24, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
forty-eight hundred and ninety-six of the Code of Virginia, as hereto-
fore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 4896. When another venire facias may issue, and the panel
completed from names selected by the court; fine of juror for non-at-
tendance.—In any case of felony, where a sufficient number of jurors to
constitute a panel of twenty free from exception cannot be had from
those summoned and in attendance, or when the venire facias, or panel
has been quashed for any cause,*the court shall select from the names
on the list provided for by sections fifty-nine hundred eighty-eight and
fifty-nine hundred and ninety, the names of, and cause to be summoned,
so many persons as may be deemed necessary to obtain a panel of
twenty free from exception; and, if for any reason, the said list be
found to have been unlawfully, illegally, or improperly prepared, the
court shall select from the persons who were eligible to have been placed
on said list, and cause to be summoned, so many persons as may be
deemed necessary to obtain a panel of twenty, free trom exceptions,
and the venire thus summoned, in either such event may be used for the
trial of all criminal cases to be tried at that term, both felonies anc
misdemeanors, in the same manner as if the venire had been obtained
according to the provisions of section four thousand eight hundred anc
ninety-five.

If any person summoned under any vere facias authorized by
this chapter fail to attend, as required, without sufficient excuse, he
shall be fined by the court not less than five nor more than twenty dol.
lars.