Coy v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, ten years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

In this case, Bexar County being a jury wheel county, the list of jurors drawn from the jury wheel for jury service during the particular week the case was tried was exhausted without a jury having been obtained.

The jury was completed from talesmen summoned by the sheriff, at the order of the court (Art. 596, C.C.P.).

The appellant objected to such procedure and insisted that the jury should have been completed from the names of jurors drawn from the jury wheel.

The question presented for our…