Cason v. State

1. Under the Penal Code, § 858, if, on the trial of a person indicted for a felony, the jury can not bo mudo up from the regular panel of forty-eight, the court shall continue to furnish panels, consisting of such numbers of jurors as the court, in its discretion, may think proper, until a jury is obtained. Unless the court abuses its discretion in regard to the number of jurors in such successive panels, it will furnish no ground for reversal.(a) Where, after ten jurors had been selected, the regular panels wore exhausted, and the court drew thirty talesmen and directed the sheriff to summon…