State v. Thibodaux

*16The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

Having been convicted of the crime of perjury and sentenced to hard labor in the penitentiary for a term of five years, the defendant has appealed.

The grounds upon which his counsel relies are the following, as extracted from his brief, viz.:

“The defendant relies for a reversal on the following points:

“ 1. That the jury which tried him was unlawfully constituted, because the panel from which it was drawn was illegally constituted, for the reason that the judge and the jury commissioners had neither power nor authority under the law to draw a…