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Miss. Code Ann. § 13-5-21 (2026)

Jury list in counties with two circuit court districts

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In counties where there are two (2) circuit court districts, the jury commission shall make a list of jurors for each district in the manner directed for a county, and the same shall be treated in all respects as for an entire county. In such counties a juror shall not be required to serve out of his district, except should the court, in its discretion, otherwise direct, and except when drawn on a special venire. In either of such excepted cases, the jury shall be drawn from the two (2) jury boxes if the court so direct, one (1) name for each alternately.

Codes, 1871, § 755; 1880, § 1689; 1892, § 2363; 1906, § 2692; Hemingway's 1917, § 2184; 1930, § 2037; 1942, § 1770; Laws, 1904, ch. 151; Laws, 1974, ch. 378, § 8, eff. 1/1/1975.

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Cited in 15 cases, 1978–2004 · leading case: Davis v. State, 660 So. 2d 1228 (Miss. 1995).
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Davis v. State, 660 So. 2d 1228 (Miss. 1995). · cites it 8× “Davis correctly points out that Miss. Code Ann. § 13-5-21 (Supp. 1991), allows the trial judge to draw the jury venire members from both Judicial Districts of Hinds County.”
Gathings v. State, 822 So. 2d 266 (Miss. 2002). · cites it 12× “Miss.Code Ann. § 13-5-21 (Supp.2001) states: In counties where there are two (2) circuit court districts, the jury commission shall make a list of jurors for each district in the manner directed for a county, and the same shall be treated in all respects as for an entire county.”
Thomas v. State, 818 So. 2d 335 (Miss. 2002). · cites it 3× “Miss.Code Ann. § 13-5-21 (Supp. 2001), which governs the method for drawing a jury when a county contains two circuit court districts, states: In counties where there are two (2) circuit court districts, the jury commission shall make a list of jurors for each district in the…”
Myers v. State, 353 So. 2d 1364 (Miss. 1978). · cites it 6× “However, this argument overlooks section 13-5-21 Mississippi Code Annotated (Supp.”
De La Beckwith v. State, 707 So. 2d 547 (Miss. 1997). · cites it 2× “Miss. Code Ann. § 13-5-21 (Supp. 1996) provides that when a special venire is drawn from both judicial districts of a county, jurors shall be drawn "one (1) name for each [judicial district] alternately.”
Moody v. State, 841 So. 2d 1067 (Miss. 2003). · cites it 2× “See Miss.Code Ann. § 13-5-21. [3] Moore originally testified the date they became concerned was May 14 , which was later corrected in the record as May 15 .”
Scott v. Ball, 595 So. 2d 848 (Miss. 1992). · cites it 2× “Miss. Code Ann. § 13-5-21 (Supp. 1991). Both districts are in the same county, they have the same circuit clerk, and there was no right in either party to have the panel of jurors restricted to one judicial district, so long as they all came from the same county.”
Pratt v. State, 870 So. 2d 1241 (Miss. Ct. App. 2004). · cites it 3× “Code Annotated § 13-5-21 (Rev. 2002). Pratt claims that drawing the jury venire from one district violated Mississippi Code Annotated Section 13-5-2, which provides: It is the policy of this State that all persons selected for jury service be selected at random from a fair cross…”
Henry v. State, 816 So. 2d 443 (Miss. Ct. App. 2002). · cites it 4× “The Court looked to Miss.Code Ann. § 13-5-21 (Supp.2000) to determine that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing the service of jurors outside their district of residence.”
McGee v. State, 853 So. 2d 125 (Miss. Ct. App. 2003). · cites it 2× “Miss.Code Ann. § 13-5-21 (Rev.2002). McGee is arguing that the lower court abused its discretion here.”
Marvin Dewayne Gathings v. State of Mississippi (Miss. 1999). · cites it 10× “Fourth, the motion brought by the State to draw juries from both districts of Chickasaw County, in accordance with Miss. Code Ann. § 13-5-21 involves a discretionary decision to be made by the trial judge.”
Kenneth Moody v. State of Mississippi (Miss. 2001). · cites it 2× “See Miss. Code Ann. § 13-5-21 . 3 by the applicable statutes, Judge McKenzie sentenced Moody to terms of life imprisonment without parole eligibility.”
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