The 299th District Court approved a juror compensation order proposed by Nassour's defense team that would have paid 12 jurors and two alternates nearly $27,000 each. One is jurisdictional and the other involves the construction of the jury compensation statute. Its jurisdictional argument is premised on the idea that this Court signed the order dismissing the indictment on some date after it signed the jury compensation order. "The State's argument that this Court lacked authority to order juror compensation is based on its construction of the governing statute, Section 61.001. Through no fault of this Court, the jurors in this case were effectively sentenced to jury service, probated for two years.