NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 747
HOUSE BILL 759

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 9‑25 SO AS TO PROVIDE THE MANNER OF DRAWING GRAND JURIES IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. G. S. 9‑25 is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph: "At each November term of the Superior Court hereafter held for the County of Rutherford, the grand jury shall be drawn as provided by law, shall be charged by the presiding judge, and shall serve until the next succeeding May term of the Superior Court for Rutherford County, and until its successor has been drawn and qualified. At each May term of the Superior Court with priority given to criminal cases hereafter held for the County of Rutherford, the grand jury shall be drawn as provided by law, shall be charged by the presiding judge, and shall serve until the next succeeding November term of the Superior Court for Rutherford County and until its successor has been drawn and qualified. 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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 on and after July 1, 1959.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of June, 1959.