729.201 Adoption of act by certain cities; rescission. Sec. 1. Any city located in a county having a population of less than 500,000 having a court known as a police court, or otherwise, and having the jurisdiction in criminal cases of justices of the peace, or the jurisdiction to try and determine cases against persons […]
729.202 Board of jury commissioners; membership. Sec. 2. A board of jury commissioners is hereby created for each city adopting the provisions hereof, which shall consist of the city treasurer, the city clerk and the city assessor. If there be more than 1 city assessor, the city legislative body shall designate the assessor to act […]
729.203 Board of jury commissioners; list of persons to serve as jurors, computation; additional names; lists in duplicate. Sec. 3. The said board shall within 15 days after the adoption of this act in any city make a list of persons to serve as jurors in said court for the remainder of the then calendar […]
729.204 Board of jury commissioners; qualifications of persons selected. Sec. 4. The said board in making such list shall select only the names of persons who are qualified electors, in possession of their natural faculties, not infirm or decrepit, of good character, integrity and sound judgment, well informed in and conversant with the English language, […]
729.205 Board of jury commissioners; exemptions; excused from serving. Sec. 5. Any person shall be exempt from serving on a jury drawn in accordance with the provisions of this act if he is exempt from serving on juries in the circuit courts of this state. Any person more than 70 years of age shall be […]
729.206 Duty of clerk of court. Sec. 6. The clerk of said court shall write the name and address of each person named on such lists on a separate slip of paper. Each slip shall then be placed in a separate receptacle so designed as to conceal the information contained on the slip, and all […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
729.213 Jury panel placed in separate receptacle; drawing; additional names, drawing; summoning. Sec. 13. The clerk shall write the name of each person so selected as a member of such jury panel on a separate slip of paper and place the same in a separate receptacle, so designed as to conceal the name, and place […]
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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
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. […]
