Commonwealth v. Magee

Opinion delivered December 6, 1873, by

Peirce, J.

This motion is made on two grounds :—

1. For errors in permitting the commonwealth to stand aside jurors without showing cause of challenge until the panel had been called.

2. For misdirection of the judge in his charge to the jury.

The first question has been disposed of in the opinion of Allison, P. J., delivered this day in the case of the Commonwealth v. Keenan, Legal Intelligencer, volume 30, page 416, for selling liquor without a license affirming the right of the commonwealth in cases of misdemeanor to stand aside jurors, as had previously…