8.01-355 - Jurors on list to be used for trial of cases during term; discharge or dispensing with attendance of jurors; drawing additional jurors.
§ 8.01-355. Jurors on list to be used for trial of cases during term;discharge or dispensing with attendance of jurors; drawing additional jurors.
Jurors whose names appear in the list provided for under §§ 8.01-348 and8.01-351 shall be used for the trial of cases, civil and criminal, to betried during the term. The judge shall direct the selection of as many jurorsas may be necessary to appear for the trial of any case. Any court shall havepower to discharge persons summoned as jurors therein, or to dispense withtheir attendance on any day of its sitting. When by reason of challenge orotherwise a sufficient number of jurors summoned cannot be obtained for thetrial of any case, the judge may select from the names on the jury listprovided for by § 8.01-345 the names of as many persons as he deems necessaryand cause them to be summoned to appear forthwith for the trial.
(Code 1950, § 8-208.17; 1973, c. 439; 1975, c. 359; 1977, c. 617.)