JURIES. 671
8.

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

10.

The grand jury is not a judicial, but an accusing, body, permitted to act upon
knowledge obtained by its members from any source; the fact that nine grand
jurors were depositors in the bank and embittered against the defendant, the
foreman having publicly declared this hostility, does not invalidate indictment.
Coblentz v. State, 164 Md. 570.

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.

Members of panel may not be examined on their voir dire merely to ascertain
whether any were acquainted with parties to suit, since acquaintance is not dis-
qualification. State v. Welsh, 160 Md. 543.

15.

The fact that sheriff, in selecting talesmen from courtroom, selected only
white men, there being a few colored men in the room, was not sufficient to
show discrimination against negroes. Lee v. State, 163 Md. 57.

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.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 23. 1912. sec. 23. 1904, sec. 23. 1900, ch. 62, sec. 23.
1908, ch. 477. 1933 (Special Sess. ), ch. 97. 1935, ch. 262.

23. Whenever the jurors for any term of court in the Counties of this
State have been drawn as hereinbefore provided by this Article, and the
business of said term has so far proceeded that the daily services and
attendants of either the grand jury or the petit jury, or both the grand and
petit jury, shall be no longer necessary, said juries shall not be finally
discharged, but shall be excused from further service for the time being
until said jury or juries are reconvened for intermediate sessions, as
hereinbefore provided, for the balance of said jury term, and until the

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