CHAPTER 77

An Act to amend and reenact § 19-186, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to exclusion from jury of persons living within two
miles of place felony committed, and exceptions thereto.

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Approved February 24, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 19-186, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 19-186. No person residing within two miles of the place where
the crime is alleged to have been committed shall be allowed to serve as a
juror in any felony case in the circuit court of any county; provided, how-
ever, that the impanelling of such a juror shall not be cause for summoning
a new panel, or for setting aside a verdict or granting a new trial, unless
objection thereto specifically pointed out is made before the jury is sworn;
and provided further, however, that such a juror may be impanelled and
serve in any county having a population in excess of ninety-five thousand
or in any county containing a town, the population of which is more than
half the entire population of the county, or in any county in which a
military reservation is located in whole or in part.