Pitt v. Bishop
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Buchanan Circuit Court. — Hon. Henry M. Ramey, Judge. It is the duty of the judge in Buchanan county, when a jury, cannot be made up from the regular panel, to make out and deliver to the proper officer a list of jurors sufficient to complete the panel. And it is the duty of the judge to make out such list and to see that they possess the proper qualifications. And if any voir dire examination should be made the judge should make it.
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Appeal from the Buchanan Circuit Court. — Hon. Henry M. Ramey, Judge. It is the duty of the judge in Buchanan county, when a jury, cannot be made up from the regular panel, to make out and deliver to the proper officer a list of jurors sufficient to complete the panel. And it is the duty of the judge to make out such list and to see that they possess the proper qualifications. And if any voir dire examination should be made the judge should make it. Page 172 of the Acts of G-eneral Assembly of Missouri, 1891, especially sections 1, 2, 6 and 8 of said act. (2) The courts will take judicial…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, P. J.
— The only question presented by the-record is whether or not the trial court erred in overruling the motion of the defendant to set aside the-verdict, which was for plaintiff, based upon the single ground that one of the jurors returning the verdict was. at the time over sixty-five years of age, which fact, being unknown to defendant until after the verdict was returned into court.
It is contended that, since the county of Buchanan contains a city, the city of St. Joseph, having according to the last preceding national census more than fifty thousand inhabitants, juries in that county shall…
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