34 Tex. Crim. 498 - Munson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. ““The appellant assigns as error that he challenged a juror, Hiller, on the list handed him, but that, by some means, said juror was called in the box, and constituted a part of the jury, and was sworn, and, after the indictment was read and the plea of not guilty entered, the appellant for the first time discovered the presence of E. H. Hiller on the jury. He then asked the court to stand him aside, and call another juror. This the court refused to do, and appellant, excepted. We think the appellant did not exercise proper diligence. He should have discovered the mistake before the jury was sworn, and then made his motion to withdraw his plea, and discharge the jury, and draw another jury. But, conceding that he had the right to have the juror set aside after he made the discovery, no injury appears to have resulted, as no opinion as to the case, or animus or prejudice, is shown to have existed on the part of the juror against appellant.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Anderson v. State