Patrick v. State

Appellant was convicted of violating the local option law, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail.

In the impanelment of the jury, appellant proposed to ask the jurors if they had such prejudice against a person, who, from his occupation or surrounding at the time, might be suspected of being in a position to enable him to violate the local option law, that might influence their action as jurors. Appellant said he expected to prove that they did have such prejudice. We think the investigation should have been permitted. The answers of the…