NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 245

HOUSE BILL 407

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE SELECTION OF GRAND JURORS IN HERTFORD COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. G. S. 9-25, as the same appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement to the 1953 Recompiled Volume 1B of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding a new subsection immediately following subsection (o), as follows:

"(oo)   Hertford. At the first term of Superior Court for the trial of criminal cases, held in Hertford County after July 1, 1965, there shall be chosen a Grand Jury as now provided by law. The first nine (9) members of said Grand Jury shall serve for a period of one year, and the second nine (9) members of said Grand Jury so chosen shall serve for a period of six months. Thereafter, at the first term of criminal court after the first day of July and January of each year, there shall be chosen nine (9) members of said Grand Jury to serve for a term of one year."

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 14th day of April, 1965.