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2009 Nebraska Code
Chapter 25 COURTS; CIVIL PROCEDURE
25-1634.02 Petit jury; additional jurors; how chosen.

25-1634.02. Petit jury; additional jurors; how chosen.

When it is deemed necessary the judge shall direct the jury commissioner or the sheriff of the county or such other person as may be designated by the judge to summon from the bystanders or the body of the county a sufficient number of persons having the qualifications of jurors, as provided in section 25-1601, to fill the panel, in order that a jury may be obtained.

Source
    Laws 1915, c. 248, § 10, p. 572;
    C.S.1922, § 9104;
    C.S.1929, § 20-1634;
    R.S.1943, § 25-1634;
    Laws 1953, c. 72, § 13(3), p. 235.

Annotations Right to summon talesmen is made to depend upon necessity, which is determinable by trial judge. Pribyl v. State, 165 Neb. 691, 87 N.W.2d 201 (1957).
In great emergency, jury can be selected from bystanders. Losieau v. State, 157 Neb. 115, 58 N.W.2d 824 (1953).


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