Wood v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Wood v. State, 62 Miss. 220 (Miss. 1884)
Cooper
Wood v. State
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
There is no error in the record. The defendant contented himself in his examination of the jury with the very general question whether any of the jurors knew of any reason why they should hot sit in the trial of the case, and thereby precluded himself from urging, in a motion for a new trial, the incompetency of the juror as to any matter which the usual examination would have disclosed. Gregg v. The State, 39 Miss. 570; Brown v. The State, 60 Miss. 447.
Judgment affirmed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Reuben Wood v. State
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- Syllabus
- Juror. Defective examination. Incompetency discovered after conviction of defendants Practice. Where a defendant in an indictment, after asking the jury called to try his. case only the general question, “ whether any juror on the panel knows any reason why he should not sit as a juror in the ease,” and, receiving no response, accepts the jury and is convicted, he is not entitled to a new trial because of discovering after the trial the incompetency of one of the jurors, if such incompetency could have been discovered by making the inquiriea usually propounded to jurors to test their competency.