22-5-311 - Selection of panel and additional jurors by court. [Effective in Certain Counties. See the Compiler - Tennessee Statutes

22-5-311. Selection of panel and additional jurors by court. [Effective in Certain Counties. See the Compiler’s Notes.]

(a)  If for any reason a legal venire or panel is not furnished the court at any regular or special term as provided by this part, then the judge of the court shall have the right to select a venire or panel and such additional jurors as may be needed by the court during the term of court.

(b)  In all counties of this state, regardless of population, jurors required to try issues of fact in the chancery or other court, not supplied with regular jurors, may be summoned instanter, by order of the court, as in subsection (a).

[Acts 1959, ch. 8, §§ 10, 11; T.C.A., §§ 22-236, 22-241; T.C.A. § 22-2-311.]