                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

NOTICE TO JURORS; MAKING COPY OF JURY PANEL AVAILABLE TO COUNSEL; OBJECTION TO
NOTICE (§ 8.01-353)

A. The sheriff shall notify the jurors on the list, or such number of them as
the judge may direct to appear in court on such day as the court may direct.
Such notice shall be given a juror as provided by &#xA7; 8.01-298. Verbal
direction given by the judge, or at his direction, to a juror who has been given
notice as hereinbefore provided that he appear at a later specified date, shall
be a sufficient notice. Any notice given as provided herein shall have the
effect of an order of court. No particular time in advance of the required
appearance date shall be necessary for verbal notice hereunder, but the court
may, in its discretion, excuse from service a juror who claims lack of
sufficient notice. Upon request, the clerk or sheriff or other officer
responsible for notifying jurors to appear in court for the trial of a case
shall make available to all counsel of record in that case, a copy of the jury
panel to be used for the trial of the case at least five full business days
before the trial. Such copy of the jury panel shall show the name, age, address,
occupation, and employer of each person on the panel. Any error in the
information shown on such copy of the jury panel shall not be grounds for a
mistrial or assignable as error on appeal, and the parties in the case shall be
responsible for verifying the accuracy of such information.

B. No judgment shall be arrested or reversed for the failure of the record to
show that there was service upon a juror of notice to appear in court unless
made a ground of exception in the trial before the jury is sworn.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-208.16; 1973, c. 439; 1974, c. 243; 1976, c. 261; 1977,
c. 617; 1980, c. 452; 1981, c. 150; 1988, c. 350; 2010, c. 799; 2024, c. 40.