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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>351410</law_id><section_number>19.2-195</section_number><catch_line>Number and qualifications of grand jurors</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="54" identifier="19.2">Criminal Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="17" identifier="13">Grand Juries</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="2" identifier="2">Regular Grand Juries</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>A regular <span class="dictionary">grand jury</span> shall consist of not less than five nor more than seven persons. Each grand juror shall be a citizen of this Commonwealth, eighteen years of age or over, and shall have been a resident of this Commonwealth one year and of the county or corporation in which the <span class="dictionary">court</span> is to be held six months, and in other respects a qualified juror, and, when the grand juror is for a <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> of a county, not an inhabitant of a city, except in those cases in which the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> of the county has <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> in the city.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 19.1-150; 1960, c. 366; 1973, c. 439; 1974, c. 617; 1975, c. 495; 1991, c. 226.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
