 | Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart - 1835 - 526 sider
...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... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - 1836 - 602 sider
...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... | |
 | Tennessee. Supreme Court, Return Jonathan Meigs - 1839 - 720 sider
...one Littlebery Bryant and one Thomas St. John, testified, on oath, that they had neither formed nor expressed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner. After a verdict of conviction, the defendant, on a motion for a new trial, presented to the court his... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court, John Lansing Wendell - 1846 - 718 sider
...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 - 1858 - 764 sider
...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... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1853 - 884 sider
...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... | |
 | Tennessee. Supreme Court, West Hughes Humphreys - 1847 - 664 sider
...prisoner was offered as a juror, and that it became necessary and material to ascertain, whether he had formed or expressed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner on trial; and that being duly sworn, he falsely swore, that he had not formed, or expressed an opinion... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1847 - 710 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
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Have you formed or expressed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner at the bar? 
