Naylor v. Petuskey Ex Rel. District Court of Oklahoma County

ALMA WILSON, Justice:

The issue in this original proceeding is whether the Court Clerk for the District Court of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, may charge and collect the jury fee prescribed in 28 O.S.1991, § 152.1 more than one time before a jury trial is had in a pending action. This issue challenges %he authority of a court clerk to require a party litigant to pay the statutory jury fee as a prerequisite to filing another motion to enter the cause on the jury docket where the cause has been previously docketed for jury trial and then stricken prior to commencement of the jury selection process.…