Epes' Case
General Court of Virginia
At the September term 1848, of the Circuit Court of Dimuiddie, William Dandridge Epes was indicted and tried for the murder of Francis Adolphus Muir. The prisoner took three several exceptions to opinions of the Court; and the jury having found him guilty of murder in the first degree, and the Court having sentenced him to be hanged, he applied to this Court for a writ of error.
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At the September term 1848, of the Circuit Court of Dimuiddie, William Dandridge Epes was indicted and tried for the murder of Francis Adolphus Muir. The prisoner took three several exceptions to opinions of the Court; and the jury having found him guilty of murder in the first degree, and the Court having sentenced him to be hanged, he applied to this Court for a writ of error. The questions made in the cause are fully stated in the opinion of the Court, delivered by Judge Leigh. William Dandridge Epes was indicted at the last term of the Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery for the…
1Opinion of the Court
*678We have again before us the question so often considered in this Court, what previously formed opinion will disqualify a person from serving on a jury in a criminal case? The cases on the question are numerous, and are perhaps in some degree conflicting. We have examined them all, and are satisfied that there is no case which would justify us in deciding that the jurors in the present case were disqualified. We do not think that Sprouce's Case, principally relied on by the prisoner’s counsel, even if it be not overruled by subsequent cases, such a case. It is indeed true, that in that case a…
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