Pub. L. 83-85, tit. IV, sec. 408

qualifications of jurors

EnactedYear: 1953Length: 98 wordsOfficial source
qualifications of jurors Sec. 408. (a) Section 199 of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia”, approved March 3, 1901, as amended (D. C. Code, sec. 11–1402), is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 199. The said jurors shall be selected, as nearly as may be, from the different parts of the District, and shall be selected, as nearly as may be, from its intelligent and upright residents.” (b) Section 215 of such Act, as amended (D. C. Code, sec. 11–1417), is amended by striking out “and under sixty-five”.
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