46 So. 246 | Miss. | 1908
delivered the opinion of the court.
In this case a special venire was demanded by the accused,, and the same was drawn and the return made by tire sheriff..
It is perfectly apparent from the proof that no attention was paid to this requirement. In one of the beats (No. 4), the registration books show the names of only twenty-six persons registered, while from it the board selected twenty-nine persons, of which number twelve had never been registered, and ten of them who had been registered were wholly omitted. In beat No. 5, there were fifty-eight registered electors; whereas, the board put sixty-three persons in tire jury box from that beat.
The observance of this section 2688 is at the Very basis of all jury trials, and, under the ruling in Purvis v. State, 71 Miss. 706, 14 South. 268, the judgment appealed from in this case necessarily must be reversed and remanded.