Flowers v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

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1. “* * * correctly held, after having quashed such panels as drawn from the so-called jury box, that in truth and in fact the county at that time had no regular jury box out of which to draw the names of jurors to take the place of the three panels which had been quashed. Thereupon, the court acted pursuant to Section 1794, Code 1942, by directing the requisite number of persons, qualified as jurors, to be summoned by the sheriff to appear forthwith to serve as petit jurors the same as if they had been regularly drawn and summoned. The statute expressly provides for this procedure "if there be not a jury-box to be drawn from." And the duty of the trial judge to follow this procedure is mandatory under the decision of J.W. Sanders Cotton Mills v. Moody, 191 Miss. 604 , 2 So.2d 815 . ( 209 Miss. at 94-95 , 41 So.2d at 353 ).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 237 So. 2d 844 - Moore v. State

2. “All the provisions of law in relation to the listing, drawing, summoning and impaneling juries are directory merely; and a jury listed, drawn, summoned or impaneled, though in an informal or irregular manner, shall be deemed a legal jury after it shall have been impaneled and sworn; and shall have the power to perform all the duties devolving on the jury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 237 So. 2d 844 - Moore v. State