State v. Bresland
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, Anna Bresland, from a judgment of the District Court of St. Louis County, J. D. Ensign, J., rendered June 29, 1894, convicting her of the crime of keeping a house of assignation in the city of Duluth. On this conviction she was sentenced to be punished by confinement in the state prison at Stillwater at hard labor for the period of four years.
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Appeal by defendant, Anna Bresland, from a judgment of the District Court of St. Louis County, J. D. Ensign, J., rendered June 29, 1894, convicting her of the crime of keeping a house of assignation in the city of Duluth. On this conviction she was sentenced to be punished by confinement in the state prison at Stillwater at hard labor for the period of four years. The defendant upon impaneling the jury challenged two jurymen for bias and cause and upon their being sworn upon their voir dire, showed by them that they were so well acquainted in the city that they were liable to know the…
1Opinion of the CourtCanty, J.
The defendant was convicted in the court below on an indictment under Penal Code, § 281, charging her with keeping an assignation house in the city of Duluth, was sentenced, and appealed to this court.
It appears by the bill of exceptions that, when the petit jury was being impaneled, the defendant challenged two of the proposed jurors for actual bias. In the examination of each juror as a witness under oath, he stated that he did not know the defendant, and knew nothing against her. He was then asked if he had heard any statement concerning the character of the house alleged to have been kept…
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