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864 JURIES—QUALIFICATION AND SELECTION. [ART. 51.

15. Talesmen to be summoned.
16. Dispensing with full panel.
17. Criminal cases where no peremp-
tory challenge.
18. Trial of alien.
19. Peremptory challenge.

20. Pay and mileage; not applicable to
Baltimore city.
21. In cases of forcible entry and de-
tainer.
22. Grand jury to visit jail.

Qualification and Selection of Jurors.

P. G. L, (1860,) art. 50, sec. 1. 1797, ch. 87, sec. 5.

1. No person shall be selected and placed upon a panel as a
juror who shall not have arrived at the age of twenty-five years.
Albert v. White, 33 Md. 163. Green v. State, 59 Md. 124.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1832, ch. 170.

2. No judge of the orphans' court shall be selected to serve as.
a juror in any case whatever.

Ibid. sec. 3. 1715, ch. 37, sec. 4. 1797, ch. 87, sec. 7. 1858, ch 139.

3. All persons over seventy years of age, and all delegates,
coroners and constables, during their continuance in office, and
all schoolmasters, shall be exempt from attendance as jurors.
Albert v. White, 33 Md. 163. Green v. State, 59 Md. 124.

Ibid. sec. 5. 1777, ch. 15, sec. 10. 1812, ch. 178.

4. No property qualification shall be required in any juror.

Ibid. sec. 6. 1715, ch. 37, sec. 9. 1778, ch. 21, secs. 2-3.

5. No person shall be selected to serve as a juror in any court
where he hath any matter of fact depending for trial at the same
court he is selected to serve in, and no person having such matter
of fact depending for trial shall be admitted as a qualified juror
between party and party during the sitting of the court in which
such matter of fact shall be or expected to be tried; and such
disqualification shall be allowed as a good cause of challenge of
any juror, but no verdict of a jury shall therefor be set aside, or
judgment thereon stayed, arrested or reversed.

1867, ch. 329, sec 1. ' 1870, ch. 410. 1888, ch. 432.

6. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the county commis-
sioners for each of the counties of this State to make out and file

 

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