Burtine v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Murder, in Lee Superior Court. Tried before Judge Worrell, March Term, 1855. When the prisoner was arraigned and put upon trial, he moved a continuance, on the ground that the evidence taken clown before the committing Magistrate, was not in Court. The motion was refused, and prisoner excepted.
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Murder, in Lee Superior Court. Tried before Judge Worrell, March Term, 1855. When the prisoner was arraigned and put upon trial, he moved a continuance, on the ground that the evidence taken clown before the committing Magistrate, was not in Court. The motion was refused, and prisoner excepted. Thomas Marsh, a Juror, said he had been absent from the country from July to December, but his father lived in Lee County, and he considered that his home : that he considered himself at home wherever he was. The Court held him competent, and defendant excepted. After the prisoner’s challenges were…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Starnes, J.
delivering the opinion.
But a few of the several grounds of objection which appear *537in the bill of exceptions in this case, were presented for our consideration at the hearing, by the-Counsel for the plaintiff' in error. These, only, we shall notice in the opinion; finding, as we do, no cause for -interference with the judgment,' on any of the other points.'
[1.] One of the Jurors, Elisha Tucker by name, was put upon triors; and before the triors he was examined, the' Counsel for the State being permitted, without objection, to-examine the Juror, with reference to his…
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