NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 5

HOUSE BILL 30

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 9-25 SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE SELECTION OF GRAND JURIES IN GREENE COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. G. S. 9-25, as the same appears in the 1957 Cumulative Supplement to the General Statutes, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"At the first term of court for the trial of criminal cases in Greene County after the first day of August, 1959, there shall be chosen a grand jury as now provided by law, and the first nine members of said grand jury chosen at said term shall serve for a term of one year, and the second nine members of said grand jury so chosen shall serve for a term of six months, and thereafter at the first regular and not special term of criminal court after the first days of February and August of each year there shall be chosen nine members of said grand jury to serve for terms of one year."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. 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 20th day of February, 1959.