State v. Connor

The accused has appealed from a conviction of larceny.

[1] His first complaint is that more than 30 days elapsed between the issuance of the judge’s order for the drawing of the venire and the meeting of the jury commissioners for obeying the order. His reliance is upon the provision of the jury law (Act 135, p. 218, of 1898, § 4) to the effect that:

“Immediately upon issuance of the order appointing the jury commission by the court, the clerk shall notify them to meet, qualify and draw the jury within thirty days.”

But this provision, from its very terms, has application only to the first jury…