Q. What courts may order a struck jury?
A. The Supreme Court and superior city courts.
Q. When may the above-named courts order a struck jury?
A. When it shall appear that an impartial trial cannot be had, or that the intricacy of the case requires such a jury.
Q. What time is required in the notice for striking a jury?
A. The party obtaining the order shall give notice eight days before the time for striking, that he will attend before the clerk of the county in which the venue is laid, for the purpose of having such jury struck.
I. The clerk shall select from the jury lists of the several towns the names of forty-eight persons, whom he shall deem most indifferent between the parties, and best qualified to try the cause.
II. The party or his attorney, on whose application the order was granted, shall first strike one from the list, and then the opposing party or agent, alternating until twelve shall have been stricken from the list by each party.
III. The clerk shall certify the names of the twenty-four persons whose names have not been stricken off, who shall be summoned, and from which number a jury shall be impaneled as in other juries.