State v. Wright

Defendants were convicted of cattle stealing, and sentenced to one year at hard labor.

They moved for a new trial, basing their application entirely on paragraph 4 of their motion, which reads as follows:

“They further urge that there were only five jurors accepted from the regular venire, and the clerk of court was then ordered to bring into court the detalibus jury box and to draw therefrom names, and in all there were drawn 60 names; that defendants did not know but that said detalibus jury box was legal and had its required complement of names required by law, but has since learned that it…