Chap. 366.-—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5995 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended, in relation to persons incompetent to serve as jurors
at more than one term during any one year period, and where persons may
not be compelled to serve. [H B 474]

Approved March 31, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion fifty-nine hundred and ninety-five of the Code of Virginia, as
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5995. No person who has been sworn for the purpose, and
who has actually sat as a juror in the trial of any case, either civil or
criminal, at any one term of a court, shall be permitted to serve as a
petit juror, or a juror in any criminal case, at any other term of that
court during the one year period for which the persons composing the
jury list on which his name was placed, were selected to serve as pre-
scribed by law, except on a special jury, unless all the persons whose
names are in the jury box have been drawn to serve during such
one year period, but no exception to any such juror on this ground shall
be allowed after he is sworn. If, however, exception be duly made, and
such person is permitted to serve in contravention of this section, it
shall of itself constitute reversible error. In cities having a population
of fifty thousand or more, no person shall be compelled to attend as
a grand or petit juror, or both, for more than two weeks in any such
one year period, unless at the time of the expiration of the two weeks
the juror be actually engaged in the trial of a case, but at the end of
such case the juror, shall, upon request, be discharged.