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1 New Jury Law [i] (1892)

handle is hein.amindian/njurla0001 and id is 1 raw text is: NEW JURY LAW.. AN ACT repealing the act of the case.. No verdict shall be render- National Oouncil approved April ed in any criiinal case without 2-ist, 1880, entitled 'an act amer.the unanimoue. consent of the datory of Capter three, Article whole jury: . Provided, That at vlfih'e Conipiled Laws ofthe all special terms of the District Cherokee Nation relating to Ju- and Circuit Courtsfor the trial of rien and amending Section fifty- criminal caseq, when there four, Arficle five, and Section shall be more than one case, to sixty-one, Article six of the be tried there shall be thirty said Chapter- three, Compiled names drawn and summoned ac- Laws of the Cherokee Nation. cordirig the chapter three, article B, it enacted by the National five, section fifty-one, of Council, That the Act of the Na. the Compiled Laws, who shall tional Council, approved April serve as jouryinen for that 21st, 1886. and entitled An Act, term of of Court. amendatory of chapter three, arli- Be it further enacted, That tile five, section fifty-one of the at least fourteen (14) days before Compiled Laws. of the Cherokee the commencemelt of the egular Nation, relating to Juries, be and ternf of the Circuit and-itmt ,he same is hereby repealed. Cg Iin each year, the Judge- of Be it further enacted, That see. bhat Courti, shall each furnish to lion fifty-four of chapter three of the Sheriff of each District a list the Compiled Laws, be amended of thirteennames of persons, intel- so as to read after the word lige-t and who shall-have Pttained Clerk, in the seventeenth line, the age of twenty one years and of said section, but in all other are otherwia~ qualied a t' y criminal cases the Clerk shall sum- men, citizens of the Dstrict, who mon eighteen after the same shallbe summoned to act as Grand have in like mlanner been drawn Jurorg'fur that District, during the by the Sheriff who shall be empan- year, and tositduring the reauiar neled as above the* Prosecution terms of the court respectively, objecting to61hree,.and the accused unless soter discharged by-the or Court. selecting the twelve out court, and the Solicitors of the of theremaining fifteen to tr m the several districts shall not be at - thorised to convene a.Grandjiiry. between the regular terms of the court except in cases for capital offenses, or cases .if fov y, at only when there !a apprehenaif4i that the accused will escape be yond the jurisdiction of the Ch'ero- kee Nation in such cases of feloj4y. No person, summoned to serve as Grand Juror, shall be exempt from service; except on account'of per.. sonal sickness, sivere or. danger ous sickness i his immediate. family, or teceni death, aid:.before the burial of any member thereof. In case of the absence of any per- son summoned as Grand Juror, his place shall be #Illed by some competent person who shall, if necessary, be summoned by speci- al writ. Be. it further enacted, That Section sixty-six, of said, Article .six, is hereby amended, so as to read, No indictment s hall b6, found by the Grand- ury Unless voted for by a majority of their number;-' And provided further, That all J-nrore shall receive twb dollars per day's service as juror. Approved Nov. 28th_ 1.892, Principal Chief. . .......... -.-, Executive -Secretary, do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of the original as. it appears of redord in the Executive Department of the Cherokee Nation. This ............ day of - . 106024 ........ ......... , 189 Executive Secretary.

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