Robinson v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of arson in the second degree with punishment fixed at five years in the penitentiary.

Before striking the jury, the appellant made a motion to the court in chambers objecting to striking from the first thirty names appearing on the venire and requesting that the panel be selected by pulling numbers at random from a hat. The motion was overruled by the court.

Appx., § 543(7), 1965 Cum.Supp. to Vol. 14A, Code of Alabama, 1940, as recompiled 1958, the statute governing selection of the jury in this case, provides in part:

“The thirty, or forty-two,…