Court Opinion

ID: 9600622
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 01:28:52.866869+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:10:36.013988
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BUSSEY, Presiding Judge,
specially concurring:
I agree that the judgments and sentences should be affirmed and wish only to observe that the challenge to the jury panel came too late in the motion for new trial. Title 22 O.S.1981, § 634 states:
A challenge to the panel must be taken before a jury is sworn, and must be in writing, specifying plainly and distinctly the facts constituting the ground of challenge.
This statute has been long and uniformly construed to preclude a challenge to the jury panel made after the verdict has been rendered. See, Queenan v. Territory, 11 *836Okl. 261, 71 P. 218, 61 L.R.A. 324, affirmed, 190 U.S. 548, 23 S.Ct. 762, 47 L.Ed. 1175 (1903); see also, Johnson v. State, 559 P.2d 466 (Okl.Cr.1977).