§ 18-38. Drawing of additional names when venire deemed insufficient in number.

Whenever a judge of the circuit or criminal courts shall be satisfied that a jury in a cause pending in his court cannot be obtained from the number of persons ordinarily summoned, the judge may at such time, previous to the hearing of the cause as he may deem best, cause the jury box to be brought into open court and such number of names as he deems sufficient drawn by the judge therefrom. Such jurors may be summoned as provided in section 18-36 or the sheriff may summon such persons, in the manner directed by the judge, and the judge shall draw from the box until the jury is completed; provided, however, that in empaneling a petit jury, the names of the regular venire summoned for the term, who have been assigned to the regular panel in attendance, shall first be called and exhausted before calling any of the names of jurors who have been summoned as additional jurors of the special panel in the manner provided herein.

(Priv. Acts 1965, ch. 159, § 7; Priv. Acts 1969, ch. 128; Ord. No. O-91-8-101, § 1, 8-29-91)