Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1897 — Who Can Serve on Juries. [ARTICLE]

Who Can Serve on Juries.

So many inquires arise as to who may serve on a jury that The Republican hastens to inform its readers. “If you are dead you don't have to servo on a jury. If you are under 21 or over 65 years of age you are exempt. If you have ever been convicted of a felony you are dishonorably exempt. If you can’t read and write the English language and make some sort of a stagger at understanding the proceedings ordinarily had in courts of justice you are exempt, If you are a minister, physician, druggist, lawyer, professor, or teacher, dentist, oculist, artist, clerk or officer of any court, postmaster, road overseer, coroner, constable, miller, judge of any court of record or superintendent of a county farm, you don’t have to serve, if you are a person of bad reputation or without visible means of support you cannot serve if you wanted to.