Section 1. Proceedings at trial for impaneling jury
When any cause shall be ready for trial, some disinterested person shall, by direction of the court, in open court draw from the said box, after having well mixed the papers deposited therein as aforesaid, twenty of said papers, one after another; and if any of the said jurors whose names shall be so drawn shall not appear, or shall be challenged and set aside for cause, such person shall proceed to draw as aforesaid a further number of the said papers, until twenty jurors shall appear, the names of which said twenty jurors shall be written in a panel by the prothonotary or clerk, from which the plaintiff shall strike one name and the defendant one, and so on alternately, until each party shall have exercised the four peremptory challenges allowed by law, and the remaining twelve jurors, having been sworn or affirmed as the law directs, shall be the jury to try such cause: Provided, That in case either party shall neglect, or refuse to aid in striking the jury as aforesaid, the prothonotary or clerk shall strike the same on behalf of such party: And Provided further, That whenever the first twelve jurors appearing in answer to the call of their names as aforesaid are satisfactory to the parties, the calling of further jurors may be dispensed with. 1885, June 23, P.L. 138, Sec. 1.