People v. Young

The appellant was charged jointly with two others with having committed grand theft, forgery and conspiracy to cheat and defraud, in the county of Los Angeles. Having been convicted by a jury of these offenses, he appeals. Since a serious question is raised as to the regularity of the impanelment of the jury, which, if tenable, renders all subsequent proceedings in the trial court nugatory and the judgments invalid, we proceed to consider it at once. The facts in this respect are not controverted by the respondent.

It appears that twelve regular jurors and two alternates were examined and…