768.17 Jurors; medical attendance; use of newspapers and letters. Sec. 17. The trial judge may order, in case of illness of any jurors mentioned in the preceding section, that such juror may receive medical attendance, and may be removed to his home or some other place agreeable to the judge during the continuance of his illness; and that any of the jurors may receive such newspapers and letters as make no mention of the trial then in progress, or of any facts connected therewith, which shall first be inspected by the said judge. History: 1927, Act 175, Eff. Sept. 5, 1927 ;-- CL 1929, 17310 ;-- CL 1948, 768.17 Former Law: See section 2 of Act 176 of 1893, being CL 1897, § 11961; and CL 1915, § 15834.
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