Court Opinion

ID: 9770511
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 16:07:25.790228+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:17.902679
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
On Motion for Rehearing counsel for appellant challenges our original opinion wherein we stated he was furnished a jury list showing that 44 jurors out of the panel of 200 had been excused. After a review of the supplemental transcripts subsequently filed by the parties, it now appears that although appellant’s counsel was furnished a list of the 200 jurors, the list did not indicate that any of the jurors had been previously excused. It appears that the excused jurors were shown on the juror’s time book kept by the District Clerk which list was used by him in calling the names of the jurors prior to voir dire examination. The record reveals that when the District Clerk called his list he did not call the names of the 44 jurors who had been previously excused. It thus appears that even though counsel did not have a list showing the excused jurors, he knew or should have known that 44 jurors were absent and unaccounted for and he made no complaint thereof.
With this explanation, we adhere to our previous ruling holding that appellant waived his right to complain. In any event the error, if any, could not have resulted in any harm to appellant in the absence of a showing by him that he was compelled to try his case before an objectionable juror. Rule 434, supra; Palestine Contractors, Inc. v. Perkins, 386 S.W.2d 764 (Tex.1964); City of Hawkins, v. E. B. Germany and Sons, 425 S.W.2d 23 (Tex.Civ.App.—Tyler 1968, writ ref’d n. r. e.). Accordingly the Motion for Rehearing is overruled.