NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 937

HOUSE BILL 1114

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND GS 9-25 SO AS TO PROVIDE THE MANNER Of DRAWING THE GRAND JURORS IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. G. S. 9-25, as the same appears in the 1959 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 113 of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph:

"At the first term of court for the trial of criminal cases for Rutherford County, after the first day of November, 1961, there shall be chosen a grand jury as now provided by law and the first nine members of said grand jury chosen at said term shall serve for a term of one year, and the second nine members of the grand jury so chosen shall serve for a term of six months; and thereafter at the first regular, not special, term of criminal court after the first day of May and November of each year, there shall be chosen nine members of said grand jury to serve for a term of one year. Said grand jury shall attend every term of the Superior Court held in Rutherford County in which criminal cases have priority and shall serve until it has been discharged. Said grand jury may be convened for the terms of court in which priority is given to the trial of civil cases, when ordered by the resident judge or the judge holding the courts for the judicial district, with notice to the Clerk of the Superior Court of Rutherford County at least ten days before the convening of said court."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1961.