Weer v. State

The appellants were convicted of conspiracy to commit the felony of grand larceny. The first alleged error relied upon relates to the drawing and impaneling of the grand jury that indicted the appellants. It was charged by way of separate pleas in abatement that the trial court ordered the names of 12 persons instead of 6 to be drawn for -grand jury service; that the drawing was not public, but was done in a small wood and glass enclosure in the clerk’s office, used by him for private conferences; that the names of 12 prospective grand jurors were drawn and recorded, 9 of whom- were…