ART. 51] JURIES. 703

ARTICLE LI

JURIES.

Qualification and Selection of Jurors. 3. Persons exempt from jury duty. 19. Peremptory challenge.

20. Pay and mileage; Baltimore City and certain counties excepted.

Qualification and Selection of Jurors.

1904, art. 51, sec. 3. 1888, art. 51, sec. 3. 1860, art. 50, sec. 3. 1715, ch. 37,
sec. 4. 1797, ch. 87, sec. 7. 1858, ch. 139. 1912, ch. 737.

3. All persons over seventy years of age and all delegates, coroners
and constables during their continuance in office, and all schoolmasters,
physicians and pharmacists shall be exempt from attendance as jurors.
See notes to this section (as it stood in 1911) in volume 1 of the Anno-
tated Code.

Ibid. sec. 19. 1888, art. 51, sec. 19. 1860, art. 50, sec. 15. 1816, ch. 45.
1841, ch. 162. 1872, ch. 40. 1912, ch. 846.

19. The right of peremptory challenge shall be allowed to any per-
son who shall be tried on presentment or indictment for any crime or
misdemeanor, the punishment whereof by law is death or confinement
in the penitentiary, and to the State on the trial of such indictment or
presentment; but the accused shall not challenge more than twenty nor
the State more than ten jurors, without assigning cause.

See notes to this section (as it stood in 1911) in volume 1 of the Anno-
tated Code.

Ibid. sec. 20. 1888, art. 51, sec. 20. 1860, art. 50, sec. 15. 1816, ch. 193,

sec. 9. 1854, ch. 28. 1S65, ch. 78. 1878, ch. 108. 1880, ch. 441.

1882, ch. 454. 1900, ch. 333. 1914, ch. 709.

20. Jurors shall receive three dollars per day for each and every
day they shall attend the several courts of this State as jurors and fif-
teen cents for each mile over five miles for going to and returning from
the court, once in each term, to be paid by the counties, respectively,
in which courts are held. This section shall not apply to the City of
Baltimore nor to Calvert, Charles nor Garrett, nor any other counties
for which special local laws exist.*

*The act of 1914, chapter 709, goes into effect September 1, 1914.