Wells v. State

Carleton Harris, Chief Justice.

Roy Wells, appellant herein, was charged with the crime of Murder in the First Degree, and the Garland County Circuit Court appointed counsel for Wells shortly after his arrest. A plea of not guilty was entered, and on the morning of the trial date, these attorneys learned that fourteen members of the regular petit jury panel had not been called as prospective jurors, the court having instructed the clerk not to call the regular members of the petit jury panel who served as jurors in the case of the State v. Tollett, a first degree murder case, which had been…