State v. Desmouchet

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Fenner, J.

The errors relied upon by defendant and appellant are presented in two bills of exceptions to rulings of the Court a qua, viz:

1st. The regular panel of jurors having been exhausted without obtaining a juror, the judge ordered jurors de tálibus circumstantibus to be called, from whom a jury was drawn to try the prisoner — to which proceeding defendant objected and excepted on the ground that the law authorizing the jury to be completed with talesmen after exhaustion of the regular panel, does not authorize the formation of an entire jury of…