Armstrong v. StateArmstrong v. State
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— Cоnviction for robbery; punishment, twenty-five years in the penitentiary.
We find no statement of facts in the record. Appellant complains of the refusal of the court to order the namеs of all jurors for the week to be рut in a box and be drawn therefrom as was required under Art. 5158j^-f, R. S. Í920. Said article was not brought forward in the Revised Statutes of 1925, but the substаnce of same is *172 brought forward and the cases of Bell v. State, 92 Texas Crim. Rep. 342, and Huffhines v. State, 251 S. W. Rep. 229, — decided with refеrence to said statute, — are in point so far as the principles thеre announced have application.
. From bill of exceptions No. 1 we leárn that appellant moved the court to have the clerk place the cards of all jurоrs available in some receрtacle and have drawn therefrom a sufficient number of cards contаining the names of jurors from which to select a jury herein. This was refused by the trial сourt who, however, Dallas County oрerating under the interchangeablе jury law instructed the bailiff of his court to dirеct the bailiff having charge of the gеneral jury for the week to send to the court room of the trial judge, men fоr a jury in this case, and that some forty оr fifty men were so sent. The names of these men, under instruction of the court, wеre written upon cards and placed in a hat from which, after being well shaken, they were drawn out and as drawn were placed on jury lists which were delivered to the respective attorneys for the State and defensе in this case. This we think in substantial compliance with Arts. 626-8, C. C. P. We are of opinion that it would not affect the legality of the action of the trial court in this case, but observe that there is no showing of the fact that all available jurors were not sent to the court roоm of the trial judge in response to his rеquest.
Bills of exception Nos. 2, 3, 5, 7 and 8 are each so qualified by the court below as to show no error, and there seems nothing in any of them to call for any discussion on our part.
Finding no error in the record, the judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.