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“ The district attorney may charge a person on an information filed in circuit court of a crime punishable as a felony if the person appears before the judge of the circuit court and knowingly waives indictment. The district attorney may charge a person on an information filed in circuit court if, after a preliminary hearing before a magistrate, the person has been held to answer upon a showing of probable cause that a crime punishable as a felony has been committed and that the person has committed it, or if the person knowingly waives preliminary hearing. ”

“ Appoint members of the bar as judges pro tempore of courts inferior to the Supreme Court. Assign judges of courts inferior to the Supreme Court to serve temporarily outside the district for which they were elected. A judge or member of the bar so appointed or assigned shall while serving have all the judicial powers and duties of a regularly elected judge of the court to which he is assigned or appointed.
[Created through S.J.R. 30, 1957, and adopted by the people Nov. 4, 1958] ”

“ The Legislative Assembly shall provide by law for:Selecting juries and qualifications of jurors;Drawing and summoning grand jurors from the regular jury list at any time, separate from the panel of petit jurors;Empaneling more than one grand jury in a county; andThe sitting of a grand jury during vacation as well as session of the court. A grand jury shall consist of seven jurors chosen by lot from the whole number of jurors in attendance at the court, five of whom must concur to find an indictment. ”