State v. Guidry

The defendant was found guilty of perjury and sentenced to imprisonment in the state penitentiary, at hard labor, for a term of not less than 18 months nor more than two years. He relies for the reversal of his conviction and sentence upon four bills of exception, all of which relate to the procedure adopted by the district court in selecting the jury.

After the state and the defendant had declared they were ready for trial, and after the names of three prospective jurors had been drawn from the venire box and they had been sworn on their voir dire, the district judge announced that the…