Leach v. State

FOSTER, Justice.

Section 52, Title 30, Code of 1940, provides that either party shall have a right to examine jurors as to their qualifications,, interest or bias, as to any matter that might tend to affect their verdict.

It has been noted that by the statute the party (including of course his counsel) has this privilege but he cannot require the court to do so for him. Ballard v. State, 236 Ala. 541, 184 So. 260; Gholston v. State, 221 Ala. 556, 130 So. 69.

And if he is negligent in not thus, making inquiry he waives much that might have been available to him, extending even, to certain causes…