670 ARTICLE 51.

ARTICLE 51.

JURIES.

	Qualification and Selection of Jurors. 6. Clerk of County Commissioners to prepare lists; special laws for certain counties.	19. Peremptory challenge. 23. Intermediate sessions of grand or petit juries; court may resummon. 24. Jury may be kept together or per- mitted to separate.

Qualification and Selection of Jurors.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 6. 1912, sec. 6. 1904, sec. 6. 1888, sec. 6. 1867, ch. 329, sec. 1.

1870, ch. 410, sec. 1. 1888, ch. 432. 1890, chs. 28, 627. 1892, ch. 182.

1894, ch. 497. 1896, ch. 329. 1900, ch. 618. 1902, ch. 105.

1904, ch. 184. 1933, ch. 66.

6. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the county commissioners for
each of the counties of this State to make out and file with the clerks of the
circuit courts for said counties, not less than twenty days before the be-
ginning of the second regular term, of said courts after each and every
general election a fair and complete list of the male taxable inhabitants or
residents of said county, whose names appear on the tax books of said
county, and who are not known to said clerk to be under the age of
twenty-five years, and to which said lists so to be made and filed with
the said clerks, respectively, shall append a certificate that said list is
fully and fairly made; and for making such list the said clerk shall
receive such compensation as the county commissioners shall deem right
and proper; and for failure to perform the duty hereby imposed the said
clerk to said commissioners shall forfeit and pay a fine to the State of
not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars in
the discretion of the court to be recovered by indictment as for a misde-
meanor, and he shall be thenceforth wholly incapable of holding or exer-
cising the duties of the said clerk to the county commissioners. Nothing
in this section shall apply to Baltimore County. Special local laws exist
for Caroline, Somerset, Worcester, Anne Arundel, St. Mary's, Queen
Anne's and Talbot Counties.

The fact that panel from which petit jury had been drawn for trial of negro
for murder had been held defective, did not affect validity of subsequent panel
which included many names in defective panel, since the persons included in
both panels possessed necessary qualifications; white juror not disqualified to
sit in case against negro because he does not believe in social equality of the
two races. Lee v. State, 164 Md. 550.

7.

Cited but not construed in Coblentz v. State, 164 Md. 570.