Case Name: COX v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1913-06-27
Citations: 158 S.W. 560
Docket Number: 
Parties: COX v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 158
Pages: 560–561

Head Matter:
COX v. STATE.
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
June 27, 1913.)
Juey (§ 66 ) — Drawing of Jueoes — Sufficiency of Panel.
Where, owing to the death of the clerk of the court at a former term, no jury commissioners were appointed, and at the next term the panel of jurors was drawn by the sheriff, the panel cannot be quashed; Code Cr. Proc. 1911, art. 715, declaring that, when from any cause there are no regular jurors, the court shall order the sheriff to summon forthwith such number of qualified persons as it may deem sufficient to serve as jurors.
[Ed. Note. — Eor other cases, see Jury, Cent. Dig. §§ 283-290, 306; Dec. Dig. § 66. ]
Appeal from Orange County Court; O. R. Sholar, Judge.
Mose Cox was convicted of unlawful gaming, and appeals.
Affirmed.
C. E. Lane, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
For other cases see same topic and section NUMBER in Dec. Dig. & Am. Dig. Key-No. Series & Rep’r Indexes

Opinion:
PRENDERGAST, J.
Appellant was convicted for unlawfully gaming. There is no statement of facts in the case. There is only one question raised necessary to decide.
Appellant's bill of exception presenting this question shows that the clerk of the court died in July, 1912, and in consequence thereof, at the suggestion of the attorneys of the court, no business was transacted at that term, and the court, in that way, failed to appoint jury commissioners and have a jury selected for the next term of the court. Appellant made a motion to quash the panel, because the jury was not selected by jury commissioners, but was selected by the sheriff. This is the only ground of complaint.
Our statute (article 715, O. O. P.) is: "When, from any cause, there are no regular jurors for the week from whom to select a jury, the court shall order the sheriff to summon forthwith such number of qualified persons as it may deem sufficient; and, from those summoned, a jury shall be formed, as provided in the preceding articles of this chapter."- This law was literally complied with in this case. Columbo v. State, 145 S. W. 911; Green v. State, 53 Tex. Cr. R. 490, 110 S. W. 920, 22 L. R. A. (N. S.) 706; Sanchez v. State, 39 Tex. Cr. R. 389, 46 S. W. 249. It is needless to cite other authorities. The court's action was correct in overruling appellant's motion to quash the panel.
There is no other question raised which we can review in the absence of a statement of facts.
The judgment is affirmed.