People v. Symonds

The defendant was convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree, from which judgment he has appealed, and assigns three causes of error:

1st. Error in denying the defendant’s chaEenge for cause to the juror John A. Tutt.

*351The ground of this challenge, though not specifically stated in the challenge, is claimed to be implied bias, as shown by the answers of the juror when questioned. After the juror had stated that he did not remember to have read the proceedings on a former trial, though he might have read a portion, that he had not conversed with the witnesses, but had with outsiders,…