Territory v. Fukunaga

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

PERRY, C. J.

The plaintiff in error was tried before a jury under an indictment charging the crime of mnrder in the first degree, was convicted and ivas sentenced to death. By a writ of error he seeks to review the proceedings had in the trial court. The errors assigned will be dealt with seriatim.

The first assignment is that the trial judge erred in refusing to sustain the defendant’s challenge of Otto Meyer, a proposed juror, for cause. In support of this assignment it is urged that the juror “had an abiding opinion that one who killed another, ‘irrespective of…