Roan v. State

THOMAS. J.-

Defendant was indicted,, tried, and convicted of murder in the first degree; and his pun-' ishment fixed “at life imprisonment.”

It is of statutory requirement that when any' person stands indicted for a capital felony, “the court must, on the first day of the term, or as soon as practicable thereafter,make an ’ order commanding ' the sheriff to summon not les's'than fifty nor more than one hundred persons, including those drawn on the regular juries for the week set for the trial of the case, and shall then in open court draw from the jury box the number of names required, with…