People v. Eggleston

Respondent stands convicted of the crime of burglary. The first four assignments of error discussed in the brief of counsel for respondent relate to incidents occurring during the empaneling of the jury. At that stage of the proceedings the learned circuit judge seems to have become somewhat impatient at the course taken by respondent’s counsel in peremptorily challenging certain jurors. While we might hesitate to reverse the case on account of what *512happened in this connection, inasmuch as it must go down for a new trial for other reasons, it is perhaps proper to say that the statute securing…