Noland v. United States

RUDKIN, Circuit Judge.

This is a writ of error to review a judgment of conviction under the White Slave Traffic Act (Comp. St. §§ 8812-8819).

At the commencement of the trial, counsel for the plaintiff in error called attention to some new rule of the court, and stated that he desired the record to show that he requested the privilege of examining prospective jurors individually on their voir dire. The court refused this request, but permitted counsel to examine the jurors collectively, or as a whole. In the course of the examination, counsel asked the jurors whether any of them had ever been a…