All  qualified  electors  of  the  State,  of  good  moral  character,  sound  judgment,
and  in  full  possession  of  the  senses  of  hearing  and  seeing,  are  competent  jurors
in  their  respective  counties.
United  States  officers,  practicing  attorneys,  physicians  and  clergymen,
acting  professors  or  teachers  in  institutions  of  learning,  and  persons  disabled  by


298  ABSTRACT  OF  IOWA  STATE  LAWS.
bodily  infirmity  or  over  sixty-five  years  of  age,  are  exempt  from  liability  to  act
as  jurors.
Any  person  may  be  excused  from  serving  on  a  jury  when  his  own  interests
or  the  public's  will  be  materially  injured  by  his  attendance,  or  when  the  state  of
his  health  or  the  death,  or  sickness  of  his  family  requires  his  absence.
CAPITAL  PUNISHMENT

was  restored  by  the  Seventeenth  General  Assembly,  making  it  optional  with
the  jury  to  infiict  it  or  not.
A  MARRIED  WOMAN

may  convey  or  incumber  real  estate,  or  interest  therein,  belonging  to  her ;  may
control  the  same  or  contract  with  reference  thereto,  as  other  persons  may  con-
vey, encumber,  control  or  contract.
She  may  own,  acquire,  hold,  convey  and  devise  property,  as  her  husband
may.
Her  husband  is  not  liable  for  civil  injuries  committed  by  her.
She  may  convey  property  to  her  husband,  and  he  may  convey  to  her?

She  may  constitute  her  husband  her  attorney  in  fact.
EXEMPTIONS  FROM  EXECUTION.
