Cunneen v. State

Atkinson, Justice.

1. The law provides the method by which juries are to be selected for the trial of criminal cases. It requires that from the jury-boxes the names of jurors shall be drawn to serve upon the several panels which sit during the term for which they are drawn. These are the legally constituted juries. If, for any reason sufficient in law, the court should see proper to discharge a juror from attendance upon the court, his place may be supplied by a tales-juror; and if for any cause a juror *407should become disqualified, his place may in like manner be supplied. A defendant upon…