Case Name: The State of Louisiana vs. James Riley
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1889-07
Citations: 41 La. Ann. 693
Docket Number: No. 1,329
Parties: The State of Louisiana vs. James Riley.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 41
Pages: 693–693

Head Matter:
No. 1,329.
The State of Louisiana vs. James Riley.
When the .jury commission has failed and neglected to take from the venire box for several years tlio names of jurors disqualified, absent and dead, it is competent for a succeeding jury commission to remedy the evil to empty tlio venire box, and place therein three hundred qualified jurors.
Whore the clerk is introduced as a witness and questioned as to the right of the jury commission in taking from the venire box disqualified, absent and dead jurors, this is not such parol evidence as to contradict or vary the venires previously drawn.
When several members of a jury commission, who are also school directors, have qualified as commissioners since tlioir appointment as school directors, they are comi>etont and legal commissioners.
When the clerk of court, who is ex-officio a jury commissioner, has taken the oath as such, it is not necessary for him to again take the oath when the judge removes the commissioners he is authorized to appoint, and appoints others.
APPEAL from the Twenty-Third District Court, Parish of Iberbille. Talbot, J.
Alex. Hébert and Jno. X. Ogden, District Attorney, for the State, Appellee.
C. O. Zauve for Defendant and Appellant.

Opinion:
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
McEnery, J.
The defendant was convicted of the crime of murder, without capital punishment. He has appealed.
With the exception of the separation of the jury, the defenses urged are identical with those in the case of the State vs. Dick Nockum and Wilson Nockum, just decided.
Por the reasons assigned in that case, the judgment in this is affirmed.