Thurmond v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the theft of one head of cattle, and given two years in the penitentiary, and prosecutes this appeal. The defendant assigns as error the fact that as many as twenty-four jurors were not drawn and placed in the box when the jury was empaneled, from which the jury in this case was to be constituted. The bill of exceptions shows that a number of the regular list of jurors, was out, trying a case, at the time, and that as many as twenty-four of the regular jury were not then in attendance on the court. The court refused to wait on the other jury to come…