Stephens v. People

The plaintiff in error was convicted of keeping a house of prostitution. The errors assigned which require attention arise upon the rulings on challenges to jurors. The offense was alleged to have been committed between the fifteenth and seventeenth days of October, 1877. Six of the persons who were summoned as jurors on being challenged stated under oath that they had formed an opinion from what they had ■heard, or from reputation, that the house kept by the defendant was a house of prostitution, and some of them *740stated that their opinions or impressions were of that character that it would…