JURIES. 1895

ment; but the accused shall not challenge more than twenty nor the State
more than ten jurors, without assigning cause.

After a juryman has been accepted by prisoner, the state not having exhausted
its peremptory challenges and having no reason to challenge for cause, may chal-
lenge under this section. Right to peremptory challenge may be exercised until
jury has been sworn. A challenge once exercised cannot be recalled. Rogers v. State,
89 Md. 425. See also Turpin v. State, 55 Md. 464.

Right of peremptory challenge is essential and is highly esteemed. History of
this section traced. Order in which challenges shall be made, and who is to challenge
first, are left to discretion of trial court. Turpin v. State, 55 Md. 464.

The benefits of this section extend to each accused person. Hamlin v. State, 67
Md. 336.

Where the challenges exhaust venire trial court may summons just enough addi-
tional jurors to fill vacancies on panel. Burk v. State, 2 H. & J. 426.

As to right of peremptory challenge in election cases, see art. 33, sec. 130.

An. Code, sec. 20. 1904, sec. 20, 1888, sec. 20. 1816, ch. 193, sec. 9. 1854, ch. 28. 1865, 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 fifteen 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.

An. Code, sec. 21. 1904, sec. 21. 1888, sec. 21. 1832, ch. 121, sec. 1.

21. In all cases of forcible entry and detainer which jurors shall be
summoned to try, each juror shall be entitled to the sum of one dollar
for his services per day, to be taxed in the costs by the justices; and any
juror who being summoned shall fail to attend on a case of forcible entry
and detainer shall be liable to attachment and fine, in the discretion of
the justices to whom the summons is returned, not exceeding ten dollars.

An. Code, sec. 22. 1904, sec. 22. 1888, sec. 22. 1837, ch. 320, sec. 13. 1838, ch. 75.

22. The grand jury shall at each term of the court visit the jail and
inquire into its condition, the manner in which it is kept and the treatment
of the prisoners, and report the same to the court.

Cited but not construed in Cocking v. Wade, 87 Md. 540.

An. Code, sec. 23. 1904, sec. 23. 1900, ch. 62, sec. 23. 1908, ch. 477.

23. Whenever the jurors for any term of court in this State have been
drawn as hereinbefore provided by this article, and the business of said
term has so far proceeded as that either the grand jury or the petit jury,
or both the grand jury and the petit jury shall have been finally discharged,
and by reason of any event or events happening before or after said final
discharge, any criminal charge shall arise which the said court shall deem
of sufficient importance to be investigated forthwith by the grand jury and to
be tried by a petit jury, the said court may, in its discretion, require the
grand jury for said term and the petit jury for said term, or either said
grand jurors or said petit jurors, to be summoned to return to said court