Tinsley v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

Appellant’s bill of exceptions Ko. 1 shows the following: The defendant waived a special venire. The clerk wrote the names of the regular jurors on a slip of paper and handed said slip to the defendant’s attorneys to pass on, and the talesmen summoned to complete said panel were impaneled in the same way. Neither names of the regular jurors, nor the names of the talesmen were written on separate slips of paper, nor were said names put into a box or…