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Show T . Picking (he 'Lucky' Names TRYING OUT "LOTTERY- MACHINE TO PICK JURORS Misa Margaret Patterson, left, and J. B. Lewis Winners of This 'Lottery9 Always Will Land in Court Trial juron selected by lot, instead of through a card index and rotation system heretofore used, will be the rule in Third district court. A cylindrical lottery box, Into which cards bearing names of 200 or more prospective Jurors will be placed at the beginning of each new term of court, will remain In the custody of Presiding Judge Allen G. Thurman. Each day the box will be opened for drawing names of Jurors to serv the succeeding day. The venire will be summoned Into court by J. B. Lewis, docket clerk, the same as he has summoned Jurors In th past from a list bearing names of men and women considered consid-ered by Jury commissioner as qualified for Jury duty. The 200 names placed Into the trial Jury box will have been drawn as usual from a master Jury box Into which Jury commissioners, commission-ers, who convene but once a year, have placed 2500 to 3000 names. "While the old system complied substantially, we believe, with statutory provisions for impaneling impanel-ing a lurv. It is thnnoht thnt lb. new system will be an Improvement Improve-ment and eliminate the question sometimes raised that litigants have not had their Juries selected from the entire term panel," Judge Thurman said. Continuing, Judge Thurman explained ex-plained that laws Insure every litigant lit-igant the right to have his Jury chosen from among all the names constituting the term panel, excluding ex-cluding from that group names of Jurors then engaged in trials or disqualified by reason of Illness or other causes. The new system is expected to guarantee such rights. |