State Ex Rel. McNary v. Stussie

FINCH, Judge.

This is an original proceeding in mandamus to compel respondent to proceed with the trial of a criminal case without requiring that eighteen to twenty year olds he summoned as jurors. At issue is whether Act 70, a statute adopted by the General Assembly in 1974, had the effect of amending § 494.010 1 so as to reduce the minimum age for jurors from twenty-one to eighteen. We make peremptory the alternative writ of mandamus heretofore issued.

The statutory provision specifying qualifications for jurors is § 494.010, which provides as follows:

“Every juror, grand or petit, shall be a…