Court Opinion

ID: 9768749
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Date Created: 2023-08-29 13:46:55.821857+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:44.261621
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OPINION ON APPELLANT’S MOTION FOR REHEARING
MORRISON, Judge.
Appellant takes this Court to task for holding that there was no showing that the jury who tried him came from the jury *244wheel which he claims was improperly filled. He calls our attention to the fact that the voir dire examination of the prospective jurors began as soon as the hearing on the motion to quash the panel was concluded. He contends this is sufficient without further identification to demonstrate that the jury which tried him came from the “infected” jury wheel.
At the hearing on the said motion to quash there was evidence that the “jury panel for the week” had been drawn from such jury wheel, but the said jury panel was not otherwise identified.
There is no subsequent evidence in this record in the form of voir dire examination, stipulations, or other testimony to identify any member of the jury which tried appellant as having been selected from the jury panel for the week briefly referred to in the testimony on said motion to quash or was drawn from the jury wheel claimed to have been improperly filled the preceding August.
If, however, appellant’s contention be correct that the surrounding circumstances are sufficient to reflect that he was tried by a jury which came from the jury wheel in question, we conclude that no reversible error is shown.
Reliance is had upon Atwood v. State, 96 Tex.Cr.R. 249, 257 S.W. 563, which itself was based on Vasquez v. State, 76 Tex.Cr.R. 37, 172 S.W. 225. Appellant has failed to note that Vasquez v. State, supra, was severely limited by our far more recent holding in De Vault v. State, 159 Tex.Cr.R. 360, 264 S.W.2d 126. Though not mentioned in De Vault v. State, supra, Atwood v. State, supra, was necessarily also limited.
We concluded in the case at bar, as we did in De Vault, supra, that there is no showing here that effort was made by those preparing the list to place any name ahead of another, or that the manner in which the venire list was drawn resulted in harm to appellant. Cf. also Williams v. State, 164 Tex.Cr.R. 381, 298 S.W.2d 833.
We have examined appellant’s other contentions on rehearing and have concluded that they were properly and sufficiently discussed in our original opinion.
Appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.