Michigan · statute · 288 of 1929, Mich. Comp. Laws · 21 active provisions
Any city may by charter or ordinance establish terms for the trial of jury cases in the justice court of such city, and may provide that jury cases may be set for trial upon 1 or more certain days of each month or as soon thereafter as such trial can be reached. Any city so providing for terms for the trial of jury cas…
A board of jury commissioners is hereby created for each city adopting the provisions hereof, which shall consist of the city treasurer, the city clerk and the city assessor, or if more than 1 city assessor then such one as shall be designated by a majority of the assessors.
The said board shall within 15 days after the adoption of this act in any city and during the month of November of every year thereafter, make and file with the clerk of the justice court a list of persons to serve for the succeeding calendar year as justice court jurors equal to 1 for each 200 inhabitants of the city,…
The said board in making such selection shall file the names of such only as are not exempt from serving on juries, who are in possession of their natural faculties, not infirm or decrepit, of good character, of approved integrity, of sound judgment, and well informed and conversant with the English language, and free…
In making such selection said board shall avoid, as far as practicable, selecting any of the persons who were actually drawn and who served as jurors on any regular justice court panel during the preceding year.
Such list of jurors shall be made in duplicate and 1 copy filed in the office of the city clerk and the other copy filed in the office of the clerk of the justice court. Upon receiving and filing such list, the clerk of the justice court shall write down the names contained therein on separate pieces of paper, of the s…
The persons whose names shall be returned as jurors shall serve as jurors for 1 year and until other lists shall be returned and filed.
At least 10 days and not more than 20 days before the holding of any term for the trial of jury cases in the justice court in any such city, the clerk of the justice court shall draw the names of 10 persons and any additional number that may be ordered by the justices of the peace of the city. Additional jurors may be…
Such drawing shall be made in the presence of at least 1 of the justices of the peace and the chief of police, or in the event of his absence or inability to attend, then in the presence of the officer at the time being in command of the police department of the city. The clerk of the justice court shall notify the jus…
The clerk of the justice court shall conduct such drawing as follows: (a) He shall place in a box prepared for that purpose all of the names contained in the list of jurors returned by the board of jury commissioners, except the names of those persons who have been previously drawn on a jury panel during the current ye…
The clerk of the justice court shall deliver to 1 of the constables, or in their absence, to a deputy sheriff, a venire containing the names and places of residence of the several jurors and specify for what term of court said jurors were drawn. The constable or deputy sheriff to whom such venire shall have been delive…
All persons who are exempt from service on juries in the circuit courts of this state shall be exempt from service on juries in justice courts of cities adopting this act. Likewise all persons who are entitled to be excused from service on juries in circuit courts in this state shall be entitled to be excused from serv…
Each justice court juror shall be entitled to receive $6.00 for each day's attendance, and $3.00 for each half day's attendance upon any term of justice court, to be paid out of the city treasury of the city on the certificate or order of the clerk of the justice court: Provided, There shall be deducted therefrom the a…
When any cause shall become at issue, any party thereto shall be entitled to a jury trial by filing with the justice of the peace a demand for a jury, and in case said cause be a civil action, by depositing with the clerk of the justice court the sum of 12 dollars, which sum shall be taxed as costs if the party deposit…
At each jury term all jury cases set for trial at said term shall be tried in the order in which they become at issue unless for good cause shown a continuance shall be granted until the next term of court or until a subsequent date during the same term. The jurors impaneled for such term shall be discharged from furth…
Nothing in this act contained shall prevent any justice of the peace, when no jury is in attendance, in his discretion and in order to avoid hardship, from delay, from ordering a jury impaneled in accordance with the method provided by law to secure a jury in trials before justices of the peace in townships.
As the cases shall be called for trial during each jury term, each jury shall consist of 6 persons and shall be drawn from the list of jurors impaneled for the term in the manner provided by the general laws of the state for drawing juries in the circuit court, as near as may be, and no person so drawn shall be excused…
Any person who shall fail to attend and continue in attendance at the justice court room in the city as a juror for the term for which he or she shall have been selected and duly summoned, as herein provided, without the consent of the justice presiding on that particular day or that particular term, shall be punished…
If in any city adopting this act there is more than 1 justice of the peace, such city may by charter or ordinance provide for the selection of a presiding justice by the justices of the peace of such city, and in such case the action of the presiding justice as to any matter herein required shall be deemed the action o…
It shall be the duty of said justices to instruct the jury in all cases as to the law applicable to the case, which instruction shall be received by the jury as the law of such case. Either party may present written requests to charge to the justice, who shall present the same to the jury as requested if he shall deem…
The justices shall have the same power to direct a verdict for either party as is had by judges of circuit courts of this state in similar cases.