People v. Brotherton

By the Court,

Wallace, C. J.:

The prisoners, George and Lewis Brotherton, were convicted of the crime of forgery, and their motion for a new trial- being denied they appeal from the judgment and from the order denying a new trial.

In impaneling the trial jury, one Butler was called and *531examined as to Ms competency to sit as a juror. He stated, in answer to questions propounded by counsel for the prisoners, that he had read a newspaper account of a previous trial of the prisoners upon the same indictment; that he formed an opinion at the time that the prisoners were guilty; that he had expressed…