NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 341

HOUSE BILL 420

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR JURY TRIALS IN JUSTICE OF PEACE COURTS IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. When an issue of fact shall be joined before a justice, on demand of either party thereto, he shall direct that sufficient persons be summoned to serve as jurors. The names of all persons attending court in answer to said summons shall be placed in a box, and the justice shall, in the presence of the parties, draw from the box the names of six persons to constitute the jury for the trial of the issue.

Sec. 2. The provisions of General Statutes 7-153, 7-154, 7-156, 7-157, 7-158, 7-160, 7-161, 7-162 and 7-163 shall not apply to Mecklenburg County.

Sec. 3. This Act shall apply to Mecklenburg County only.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of April, 1959.