SB 397, 45th R.S.
Relating to providing that in all counties having therein a city of two hundred thirty-one thousand five hundred (231,500), and not more than two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) population, as shown by the last preceding Federal Census, the Judge of the Court having jurisdiction of a capital case in which a motion for special venire has been made, shall grant or refuse such motion at his discretion, and upon his refusal to grant same, require the case to be tried by the regular jurors summoned for service, and such additional talesman as may be ordered in the courts of such county, where as many as one hundred (100) jurors have been so summoned for regular service for the week in which such capital case is set for trial, and providing that the clerk of such court shall furnish defendant or his counsel a list of such persons summoned for jury service upon application therefor.
Author: J. Franklin Spears
Session Law Chapter:
Acts 1937, 45th R.S.,ch. 241, General and Special Laws of Texas
Subjects:
Courts--Juries
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