Shields v. State

Appellant was convicted of the crime of manslaughter upon an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree, in the killing of James Young. The only error assigned calls in question the action of the court in overruling the motion for a new trial.

One Harvey Ward, being called as a juror, was examined upon oath as to his qualifications to serve as a juror. He stated that he had formed and expressed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the appellant; that his opinion was formed from talking with his neighbors about the case, and he had read some thing about it in the newspapers;…