Empson v. People

Citations

• 78 Ill. 248

Syllabus

<p>1. Grand jurors—mode of obtaining. The act of April 10, 1873, providing for the clerk of the court to draw from the jury box kept in the county clerk’s office, for the purpose of obtaining grand jurors, was repealed by the act of May 7th, 1873, which provides that the county board of the county shall select the grand jury.</p> <p>3. Same—-filing panel. Under the statute of 1873, where the grand ju. rors regularly summoned have been discharged, the court may order a special venire for a grand jury, and this is the only mode to obtain one under such circumstances, unless it was summoned from the bystanders.</p>