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ARTICLE 51.

JURIES.

Qualification and Selection of Jurors,

19. Peremptory challenge.

Qualification and Selection of Jurors.

13.

Panel, before it is stricken from, should present twenty names beyond reach of
challenge. Counsel may examine jurors only in discretion of court, but are en-
titled to have court examine them before striking. Assumption that court's
action correct. Beck v. State, 151 Md. 616. And see Lockhart v. State, 145 Md.
613.

17.

See notes to sec. 13.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 19. 1912, sec. 19. 1904, sec. 19. 1888, sec. 19. 1816, ch. 45.
1841, ch. 162. 1872, ch. 40. 1912, ch. 846. 1927, ch. 347.

19. The right of peremptory challenge shall be allowed to any person
who shall be tried on presentment or indictment for any crime or misde-
meanor, the punishment whereof by law is death or confinement in the
penitentiary, and to the State on the trial of such indictment or present-
ment; but the accused shall not challenge more than twenty nor the State
more than ten jurors for each accused person then being on trial, whether
by joint indictment or separate indictments, without assigning cause.

22.

This section referred to in passing upon functions of grand jury: criticism of
public officials; power exceeded. In re Report of Grand Jury, 152 Md. 623.

As to inspection by jury in civil cases of property or place, see art. 75, sec. 105.