People v. Hartman

Defendant has been convicted of the crime of bigamy and appeals to this court.

It is first insisted that the challenge to the panel of jurors should have been allowed. The challenge was based upon the claim that the sheriff who summoned the jurors was biased. This officer was placed upon the stand and examined at length as to his state of mind, and w'e will not here detail his evidence. It may be conceded that it is not entirely explicit, and possibly is contradictory to some extent, yet he testifies that he had “no opinion as to whether or not the defendant was the husband of Mrs. Hartman,”…