NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 19

HOUSE BILL 93

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 9-25 RELATING TO THE MANNER OF SELECTING THE GRAND JURY IN DAVIE COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That G. S. 9-25, as the same appears in Volume 1B of the General Statutes and the 1959 Supplement thereto, be and the same is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph to read as follows:

"At the first term of Superior Court for the trial of criminal cases in Davie County after July 1, 1961, there shall be chosen a grand jury as now provided by law, and the first nine members of said jury chosen at said term shall serve until the first term of Superior Court for the trial of criminal cases after July 1, 1962, and the second nine members of said jury so chosen shall serve until the first term of Superior Court for the trial of criminal cases after January 1, 1962; and thereafter at the first criminal term after the first day of January of each year there shall be chosen nine members of said grand jury to serve until the first criminal term after the first day of January of the following year, and at the first criminal term after the first day of July of each year there shall be chosen nine members of said grand jury to serve until the first criminal term after the first day of July of the following year.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after July 1, 1961.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of March, 1961.