Young v. Commonwealth

CLAY, Commissioner.

Appellant was convicted of grand larceny, and his punishment fixed at three years in the penitentiary.

Appellant’s first ground for reversal is that the trial court erred in not sustaining his challenge to the jury panel and granting *894him a continuance.' The basis of the challenge was that appellant had been tried and convicted of another crime (not related or connected) six days before. The jury in the former trial had been drawn from the same panel from which jurors were drawn for the second trial, and as a matter of fact, six jurors tried appellant on both indictments.

There…