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Show Commissioners To Choose Jurors; Selections Flade Reed Lyons, of Mt. Home, and Heber T. Hall, of Roosevelt, have been chosen jury commissioners to draw the 1955 jury list for the Fourth Judicial District Court in Duchesne County. The District Court judges made the appointment. appoint-ment. Utah law provides that prior to Dec. 1 each calendar year, the judges of the District Court shall appoint two persons as jury commissioners. com-missioners. The appointees shall be voters of the county, well-known, well-known, to be of opposite politics, and have certain other qualifications qualifica-tions designated by Utah statutes. The manner and choosing of names to be listed as jurors is also provided by law. Names shall be selected, as far as practicable, from the several precincts of the county in proportion to the number num-ber of votes cast therein at the last preceding general election. Names are selected by the jury commissioners before the 15th day of December from the names of legal voters on the assessment roll of the county for the current year, taking into consideration and omitting the names of persons who are exempt from jury service by law. Term jury venires for 1955 will be drawn from this list, which will contain about 200 names. The commissioners met last Monday to perform the task. |