Section 729.214 – Challenges.
729.214 Challenges. Sec. 14. Any person drawn as a juror may be challenged for cause for the same reasons he could have been challenged for cause if drawn as a juror in a trial in the circuit court. The respondent and the prosecuting attorney in state cases, and the city attorney in city cases, shall […]
Section 729.215 – Instructions to Jury.
729.215 Instructions to jury. Sec. 15. It shall be the duty of said judge of a police court to instruct the jury in all cases as to the law applicable to the case being tried by it, which instruction shall be received by the jury as the law of the case. History: 1953, Act 17, […]
Section 729.216 – Jury Service; Limitation.
729.216 Jury service; limitation. Sec. 16. No person shall be required to serve as a juror in said court more than 4 times within any calendar year. A person who shall be upon the jury list provided in section 3 hereof shall not again be placed on said list for a period of 2 years. […]
Section 729.217 – Fees.
729.217 Fees. Sec. 17. Each police court juror shall be entitled to receive $8.00 for each day’s actual attendance in court, and $4.00 for each 1/2 day of such attendance, to be paid by the clerk of the police court and accounted for to the proper city or county officials. History: 1953, Act 17, Imd. […]
Section 729.207 – Date of Trial; Drawing of Panel, Time; Number of Jurors.
729.207 Date of trial; drawing of panel, time; number of jurors. Sec. 7. When a jury trial shall have been demanded by any person to be tried in said court, the judge of said court shall fix a time for such trial and shall fix a time for the drawing of a panel of jurors […]
Section 729.208 – Drawing; Conduct.
729.208 Drawing; conduct. Sec. 8. Such drawing shall be conducted at the place of the holding of said court at the time so fixed by the judge, or at such adjourned time as he may order. Such drawing shall be conducted by the clerk in the presence of the judge, shall be public, and the […]
Section 729.209 – Clerk to Draw Names; Record; Signature.
729.209 Clerk to draw names; record; signature. Sec. 9. Upon such drawing of the panel the clerk shall draw from said box such names, 1 at a time, as may be needed to complete said panel, in the number ordered by the court. He shall publicly announce the name of each juror drawn and make […]
Section 729.210 – Slips Drawn; Replacement.
729.210 Slips drawn; replacement. Sec. 10. All slips drawn, except those destroyed as hereinbefore provided, shall be replaced in the receptacle and returned to the box after the drawing of a jury panel has been completed and used with the names already in the box in the drawing of subsequent jury panels. History: 1953, Act […]
Section 729.211 – Summoning of Jurors; Service.
729.211 Summoning of jurors; service. Sec. 11. The clerk of said court shall issue under his hand and deliver to the bailiff of said court, or to a police officer of said city, a subpoena or venire for each juror who is a member of said panel, summoning him to appear for said trial. Said […]
Section 729.212 – Failure to Attend; Penalty.
729.212 Failure to attend; penalty. Sec. 12. Any person so summoned as a juror, who shall fail to attend and to continue in attendance at said trial, unless excused by the judge of the police court, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100.00, or imprisonment in the county jail for a period not […]