Easier to Move the Jury than to Move Trial to Another Location, Aug. 28, 1925

Easier to Move Jury Than Trial. . . North Carolina Has Law Similar to That in Virigina for Courts

Trial of Rudolph Disse in Richmond before a jury brought in from another county last week has called attention to the fact that North Carolina has a similar law to that of Virginia though it is not so broad in its provisions.

Suggestion that W.B. Cole, slayer of W.W. Ormond, who is now in jail in Rockingham might ask for a change of venue when arraigned for the killing has also served to call attention to the North Carolina law, which permits a judge instead of ordering removal of a case to another county to impanel a jury from an adjoining county or from any county in the same judicial district.

The Virginia statute provides that in a criminal case “if qualified jurors, not exempt from serving, cannot conveniently be found in the county or corporation in which the trial is to be the court may cause as many of the jurors as may be necessary to be summoned form any other county or corporation.”

From the front page of The Zebulon Record, Friday, August 28, 1925

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