Baker v. . Harris

There is no cause assigned upon the record for a challenge to the array, and we consider the case, therefore, as a challenge to the polls. It was so treated in the court below.

Challenges of this sort lie under three principal divisions: (1) propterhonorem; (2) propter defectum; (3) propter affectum. Of the last, under which lies our case, there are two sorts; the one working a principal challenge, the other to the favor. And the first question that presents itself for our consideration is whether the cause assigned be principal cause or cause for challenge to the favor only. For if it be of…