State v. Wilson
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from the Des Moines District Court. Indictment for larceny, in stealing a horse. While the jury were being impanneled, the defendant propounded to one of the jurors, the folio wing interrogatory : Do you belong to any association, or organized company, in this county, for the prosecution of persons generally, arrested for horse stealing ? which being objected to, the objection was sustained by the court.
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Appeal from the Des Moines District Court. Indictment for larceny, in stealing a horse. While the jury were being impanneled, the defendant propounded to one of the jurors, the folio wing interrogatory : Do you belong to any association, or organized company, in this county, for the prosecution of persons generally, arrested for horse stealing ? which being objected to, the objection was sustained by the court. The defendant then aslced the juror: Do you belong to any association existing in this county, to prosecute this (and other cases) on charge of horse stealing? To this question, the…
1Opinion of the CourtStockton, J.
If the court had allowed the question to be asked, as propounded by the defendant, and the juror had answered, that he was a member of 44 an association, or organized company, for the prosecution of persons generally, arrested for horse-stealing,’4 such fact, if shown, would not have disqualified the juror, and is not one of the causes for'which a challenge for implied bias, is allowed by the statute. Code, sec. 2986.
It is claimed for defendant, however, that the answer to the question, if allowed by the court, might have determined the mind of the defendant, as to the exercise of his right…
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