Henry v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder, in Dougherty Superior Court. Tried before Judge Allen, December Term, 1862. Henry, a slave, the plaintiff in error, was put upon his trial for the murder of a fellow-slave, Gilbert, and a verdict of “guilty” found by the jury.
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Indictment for murder, in Dougherty Superior Court. Tried before Judge Allen, December Term, 1862. Henry, a slave, the plaintiff in error, was put upon his trial for the murder of a fellow-slave, Gilbert, and a verdict of “guilty” found by the jury. The errors alleged are stated in the motion for a new trial made by his counsel, as follows: 1. That while selecting a jury, and after one juror had been sworn in chief, James Hamlin, one of the jurors on the panel, on being asked by the State, whether his mind was perfectly impartial between the State and the1 accused, answered, “he did not know…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court. —
Lyon, J., delivering the opinion.
1. The first exception made in the record is to an explanation given by the Court to one of the jurors while on his trial for competency. The juror did not understand the meaning of the term “ perfectly impartial,” and the Court explained its meaning to his understanding of it. We see no error in this; on the contrary, we think it was the duty of the Court to make the explanation.
2. It is also objected, that while another juror was on trial, and after he had answered the question, whether he had any bias or prejudice against the prisoner, in the…
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