NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 461

HOUSE BILL 658

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO THE SELECTION AND TERMS OF GRAND JURORS IN CHOWAN COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. G. S. 9-25, as the same presently appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement to Recompiled Volume 1B of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"(ii)     Chowan. At the first term of court for the trial of criminal cases in Chowan County Superior Court after the first day of July, 1965, there shall be chosen a grand jury as now provided by law. The first nine members chosen of the said grand jury shall serve for a term of one year and the second nine members of the said grand jury shall serve for a term of six months. Thereafter at the first regular criminal term of Superior Court after the 1st day of January and the 1st day of July of each year there shall be chosen nine members of the said grand jury to serve for a term of one year. The foreman of the grand jury shall be selected by the presiding judge to serve for a term of twelve months. The said judge presiding may at any time, however, in his discretion, discharge said foreman from further service as foreman, and cause to be appointed a new foreman of the grand jury to fill out the unexpired term. In the event a vacancy or vacancies occur in the grand jury of Chowan County, the resident judge of the First Judicial District or the judge holding the court of said county may, in his discretion, order a new juror or new jurors drawn from the jury box to take the oaths prescribed and to serve the unexpired terms of the juror or jurors whose vacancies they were drawn to replace."

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall become effective on July 1, 1965.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of May, 1965.