State v. Chase

In 1921 it was deemed expedient so to amend the laws providing for the selection of jurors that women otherwise qualified should be eligible to jury duty. The principal change made by Chapter 273, Laws of 1921, consisted in striking out those words or phrases which limited the persons *266eligible to jury duty to men, inserting in place of tbe word “men” or “male persons” tbe word “persons,” and providing- the terms npon which women summoned as jurors could obtain exemption. In addition to these amendments, no material change was made with the exception of that contained in Section 10, quoted in…