870 JURIES—STRIKING——TALESMEN. [ART. 51.

improperly selected or drawn; and the said court shall have full
power and authority to coerce the attendance of jurors drawn and
summoned under this article, and to punish by fine or imprison-
ment, or both, for any default or contempt committed in disre-
garding such summons.
Green v. State, 59 Md. 127.

1867, ch. 329, sec. 7.

12. Before the drawing of any new panel of jurors from the
tax lists and poll books as provided in sections T and 8, it shall be
the duty of the said courts to have the box in which the names of
jurors have been deposited, emptied of any and all the ballots
therein remaining.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 50, sec. 9. 1797, ch. 87, sec. 9.

13. In all civil cases called for trial in any court in which a
jury shall be necessary, according to the constitution and laws of
this State, twenty persons from the panel of petit jurors shall be
drawn by ballot by the clerk, under the direction of the court,
and the names of the twenty persons shall be written upon two
lists, and one of said lists forthwith delivered to the respective
parties or their counsel in the cause; and the said parties or their
counsel may each strike out four persons from the said lists, and
the remaining twelve persons shall thereupon be immediately
empanelled and sworn as the petit jury in such cause.

Lee v. Peter, 6 G. & J 447. Edelen v. Gough, 8 Gill, 90. Hamlin v. State,
67 Md. 336.

Ibid. sec. 10. 1797, ch. 87, sec. 9.

14. If the said parties or their counsel, or either of them, shall
neglect or refuse to strike out from the said lists the number of
persons directed in the preceding section, the eourt may direct
the clerk to strike out from the Est of the party so neglecting or
refusing, the number in said section directed, and the remaining
twelve persons shall be empanelled and sworn as aforesaid; but.
this and the preceding section shall not take away the right of
any person to challenge the array or polls of any panel returned
in the manner allowed by the laws of this State.

Hamlin v. State, 67 Md. 336.