§ 16-13-33 — Improper listing of names drawn as misdemeanor.

Every person authorized by law to assist at the drawing of any jurors to attend any court, who intentionally puts or consents to putting upon any list of jurors, as having been drawn, any name which shall not have been drawn for that purpose in the manner prescribed by law; or who omits to place on such list any name that shall have been drawn in the manner prescribed by law; or who signs or certifies any list of jurors as having been drawn which was not drawn according to law; or who is guilty of any other unfair, partial, or improper conduct in the drawing of any such list of jurors, is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.

Legislative History

PenC 1877, § 133; CL 1887, § 6333; RPenC 1903, § 139; RC 1919, § 3721; SDC 1939, § 13.1210; SL 1979, ch 150, § 1.