Carnal v. People
New York Supreme Court
This was a writ of error to the New York Oyer and Termi-ner, where the plaintiff in error was tried for murder, Justice Edmonds presiding, and sentenced to death. A bill of exceptions having been settled, a writ of error was allowed with a stay of proceedings. The questions presented by the exceptions are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
King. J.
The first exception to the proceedings at the trial is thus stated in the bill of exceptions:
After several jurors had been called and challenged to the favor on the part of the prisoner and set aside, Charles Mason was called as a juror and appeared and was challenged for principal cause on the part of the prisoner, and the challenge denied by the counsel for the people, the said Charles Mason having been sworn to testify the truth as to his competency to serve as a juror, testified that he had not formed or expressed any opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the accused, whereupon…
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