 | Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart - 1835 - 526 pages
...Tlle Hall was called as a juror, who being sworn on his voir wil dire, said that he had formed and expressed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner; the prisoner then challenged him for cause; but the Court overruled the challenge and directed the... | |
 | Tennessee. Supreme Court, George Shall Yerger - 1836 - 640 pages
...ascertain whether he had formed or expressed an opinion, as to the guilt or innocence of the defendant on trial, and that being duly sworn, he falsely swore,...had both formed and expressed an opinion, and that Dece™eri836.he swore faisGlY 'm that respect. There was no averrment in Tiia state ~~ e'tner count,... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - 1836 - 602 pages
...Chandler Waldo, .also of the grand jury that found the indictment, had, before he was sworn, formed and expressed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner. These exceptions, as to the qualifications of grand jurors, it is thought, cannot be legally taken... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court, John Lansing Wendell - 1846 - 718 pages
...proposition by counsel on either side, each juror who appeared was sworn and examined as to his having formed or expressed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner. After the regular panel was exhausted, Elijah Grey, who had been summoned as a talesman, being called,... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1853 - 884 pages
...overruling the challenge for cause of two of the jurors, one of whom had formed and the other formed and expressed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner, because they were not impartial jurors, (BUI of Rights, Stewart vs. State. [Jen sec. 11,) and it did... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1858 - 764 pages
...appears to be the same juror who stated, upon his examination by the Court, that he had formed and expressed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner, upon rumor, and who was decided to be competent without inquiry, by the Court, whether the opinion... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1847 - 710 pages
...put such juror on triors, and to prove by witnesses before the triors that such juror has formed and expressed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner, from hearsay or report, and to prove any other facts that may show that said juror does not stand indifferent... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1869 - 792 pages
...this juror, under the voir dire, he failed to answer categorically, but replied, " I have formed and expressed an opinion (as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner) from hearsay." This was not such an answer, nor in such form, as the statute contemplates. It presented... | |
 | New York (State)., New York (State). Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings - 1850 - 558 pages
...examined on principal challenge, and answered in the affirmative to the question, whether they had formed or expressed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner. Had those challenges been taken to the favor, the sensible test suggested by the supreme court in the... | |
 | Asa Kinne - 1854 - 358 pages
...was called, and being sworn to answer questions to the interrogatory of the district attorney, said he had not formed or expressed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner, and was thereupon tendered by the district attorney as a juror to the defendant, and accepted. The... | |
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... that he had not formed or expressed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner at the bar. 
