State v. Pollet

The opinion of the court was delivered by

McEnery, J.

The defendant was tried for murder, found guilty without capital punishment, and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for life. He appealed.

The trial judge ordered the clerk, in view of the possibility of exhausting the regular panel, to notify the jury commissioners to meet in open court and draw thirty additional jurors to pass upon defendant’s case.

The defendant complains that this list of jurors was not served on him two entire days before the trial. The list was not served on him, but a copy was served on his attorney. This was not a…