Pennsylvania Act 1885-106 — PROCEEDING FOR IMPANELING JURIES

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PROCEEDING FOR IMPANELING JURIES
                 Act of Jun. 23, 1885, P.L. 138, No. 106              Cl. 42
                               A SUPPLEMENT

     To an act, entitled "An act relative to the organization of the
        courts of justice," approved April fourteenth, one thousand
        eight hundred and thirty-four, providing for the manner of
        selecting jurors in certain causes.

        Section 1.  Proceedings at trial for impaneling jury
        When any cause shall be ready for trial, some disinterested
     person shall, by direction of the court, in open court draw from
     the said box, after having well mixed the papers deposited
     therein as aforesaid, twenty of said papers, one after another;
     and if any of the said jurors whose names shall be so drawn
     shall not appear, or shall be challenged and set aside for
     cause, such person  shall proceed to draw as aforesaid a further
     number of the said papers, until twenty jurors shall appear, the
     names of which said twenty jurors shall be written in a panel by
     the prothonotary or clerk, from which the plaintiff shall strike
     one name and the defendant one, and so on alternately, until
     each party shall have exercised the four peremptory challenges
     allowed by law, and the remaining twelve jurors, having been
     sworn or affirmed as the law directs, shall be the jury to try
     such cause: Provided, That in case either party shall neglect,
     or refuse to aid in striking the jury as aforesaid, the
     prothonotary or clerk shall strike the same on behalf of such
     party: And Provided further, That whenever the first twelve
     jurors appearing in answer to the call of their names  as
     aforesaid are satisfactory to the parties, the calling of
     further jurors may be dispensed with. 1885, June 23, P.L. 138,
     Sec. 1.