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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 105.18

  • city: whenever used in this act , shall be construed to mean a city incorporated under this act, or made subject to its provisions. See Michigan Laws 113.10
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
     The circuit judge shall make an order that a jury be impaneled in the case. Such jury shall be composed of 12 freeholders of the municipality or vicinity, and shall be selected and impaneled as follows: The city marshal or any member of the police force of such city shall, on the same day or at an adjourned day, make a list of 24 resident freeholders of said city or vicinity, and the city attorney and the respondents collectively shall each have the right to strike 6 names from the list of persons written down as aforesaid, and subject to objection for cause; the 12 persons whose names are left on the list shall compose the jury for the trial of the cause and shall be summoned to attend at not less than 3 nor more than 10 days from the date of selecting such jury, by a venire issued by him to be served by 1 of the officers aforesaid. If the respondents neglect or refuse to strike 6 names from the list, it shall be done by the circuit judge, and in case any of the persons to be summoned cannot by him be found in the county, or being summoned do not attend, or shall be excused for cause or otherwise, talesmen possessing the necessary qualifications may be summoned as jurors in the case by such officer, and the practice and proceedings under this chapter, except as herein otherwise provided relative to impaneling, summoning and excusing jurors and talesmen, and imposing penalties or fines upon them for non-attendance, shall be the same as practice and proceedings of circuit courts relative to jurors in cases in such courts.