State v. . Greenwood

I will give no judicial opinion, having preferred this indictment whilst Attorney-General. Were I to give one, I should not hesitate to decide against the objection. He might have taken his exception to the juror before he was sworn; that is the time the law appoints for him to take it; and in this, as in all other cases, when the objection is not made at the appointed time, and the parties proceed to other stages, which in point of order are posterior, they can never afterwards be allowed to recur to the advantage they have passed; as if a defendant pleads in disability of the plaintiff, he…