People v. Parker
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to recorder’s court of Detroit; Phelan, J. George W. Parker was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to imprisonment for not less than nine, and not more than ten, years in the State prison at Jackson. The respondent, under an information charging murder, was convicted of manslaughter. A jury was duly impaneled, accepted, sworn, and placed in charge of officers of the court, March 16, 1904, and the case adjourned to the following day.
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Error to recorder’s court of Detroit; Phelan, J. George W. Parker was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to imprisonment for not less than nine, and not more than ten, years in the State prison at Jackson. The respondent, under an information charging murder, was convicted of manslaughter. A jury was duly impaneled, accepted, sworn, and placed in charge of officers of the court, March 16, 1904, and the case adjourned to the following day. The trial was again adjourned to the 18th. On that day the presiding judge announced that he had discovered that one of the jurors was related to the…
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, J.
(after stating the facts). The gravest and most important question in the case arises upon the action of the court in discharging the third jury, after the people had rested their case and the respondent had entered upon his defense. The record discloses no specific acts which showed a disqualification of any juror. In discharging the jury the presiding judge stated that “no direct proof of any wrong-doing had been presented to the court in sufficient volume to satisfy the court that any wrong had been actually perpetrated.” He also stated to the jury that they were an average body of men in…
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