Swor v. State
Swor v. State
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
Appellant was tried for murder and properly convicted. He made a motion for a new trial, one ground of which — and the only one, as we think, deserving consideration — is in these words : ‘£ When the verdict against him was received and read by the clerk, defendant demanded that the jury be polled individually. The record could not be found from which to poll the jury. Then the court proceeded to poll each member of the jury by asking him his initials. When' the polling was completed the defendant was ushered from the presence of the court,' and the district attorney allowed to insert and correct the initials of the jury, in the absence of the defendant, before the jury was discharged.” A careful reading of the examination and cross-examination of the witnesses produced for and
Affirmed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Thomas Swor v. State of Mississippi
- Status
- Published
- Syllabus
- Jury Trial. Polling. Names of jurors. Lists. A jury may be legally polled -without calling the names of the jurors from the list kept by the clerk of the court.