SERVICE ON JURY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 110, 5 April 1930, Page 8

SERVICE ON JURY.

YEAR’S LIST COMPILED. • OVER 2000 NAMES. This year 2085 residents of Palmerston North are liable to ; be called for service onttlie jury in the Supreme Court. Tire list was revised and confirmed at the court yesterday by Messrs. G. W. Ashworth and J. T. Brosworth, J.P.’s. • ■ Those liable for service as jurymen are men of good fame and ’character between the ages of 21 and 60'years. Tlie following are not qualified: (a) Anyone who is not a' natural born or a naturalised subject of His Majesty; (b) any person convicted of an infamous crime, or treason: (c) an undischarged bankrupt; (d) anyone of bad fame or repute. Exemptions from service include members of both Houses of Parliament, judges, clergymen, schoolmasters and inspectors of schools, barristers and solicitors, physicians, surgeons, dentists, Government officers, licensed pilots,' post and telegraph officials, members of army or navy, masters of ships, railway officials, and fire brigadesmen on production of a certificate. • . ' ' - * The list is compiled by police officers, and later the justices of the peace are called together to - correct or confirm the list, which, on May 14 of each year, becomes the new jury list., The complete list forms ■ the common' jury list, and it' is from this list that the sheriff is required to form the grand jury list. This consists of all men who are described as “esquires, gentlemen, merchants, . managers of banks, civil engineers and architects,”, arid also such other persons as are known to the sheriff to bo- of the best condition, and their names, are entered in a “special jury” .book. Each name has a number, and when balloting for the jury all the numbers are put In a box, on little cards which are drawn out when required. With regard to challenges in court, six are allowed on each side; ; but the Crown can order any number to stand aside until all are .called, when they can be called again, if required. 'Every challenge must take place before the juryman takes his seat.