Parrish v. Castleberry

1-. On the trial of a civil case a party has the right, in the selection of jurors, to have stricken from the panel all who have declared an opinion on the merits of the case. Penal Code, § 859; Haney v. Hightower Institute, 113 Ga. 289, 293 (38 S. E. 761) ; Justices of the Inferior Court v. Griffin & West Point Plank Road Co., 15 Ga. 39. Accordingly, on the trial of a case instituted by the filing of a protest to *116the return of proeessioners appointed to mark the lines of a tract of land, it was not error, while selecting the jury, for the judge to excuse a person on the panel who had been…