Maroney v. State

Henry Maroney prosecutes this appeal from a judgment of conviction for the crime of selling intoxicating liquors, fixing his punishment at one year in the State Penitentiary.

Two errors are assigned for the reversal of the judgment, the first that the court erred in the examination of the jurors on their voir dire, and the admission of the testimony of Lee as a witness.

The record discloses that the court said to the jury:

“Gentlemen of the jury, it may develop, on the trial of this case, that the State will depend in part, to what extent I just now am not advised, on the testimony of a special…