State v. Howard

Defendant appeals from a sentence of imprisonment at hard labor for life, after a trial upon a charge of murder and a conviction, without capital punishment. He relies upon a bill of exceptions to the overruling of a motion for new trial, which contains the recitals:

That Joseph Vargas, who served on the jury by which defendant was convicted, had, on his voir dire, so answered the following questions as to convince counsel for defendant that he was a competent juror and lead to his acceptance, in the belief that he had answered truthfully, whereas he had answered falsely and was, in fact,…