Sanders v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

As to the method of drawing traverse jurors, Code § 59-701 provides that at the same time and in the same manner that grand juries are drawn “the judge of the superior court shall draw out of the same compartment of the jury box 36 names to serve as petit jurors.” To the same effect see Code § 59-108 (c). The appellant here complains that on three or four occasions during the physical drawing out of the cards containing the prospective jurors’ names the judge, in the presence of the sheriff, the clerk of court, and others, allowed an infant of between four and six years…