State v. McGee

The opinion of the Court was delivered T>y

Mannxng, J.

The defendant was convicted of murder and was sentenced to he hanged.

1. Sol. Bell and J. J. Patton were challenged for cause as jurors, the. objection being that they had formed fixed and deliberate opinions of the guilt of the. accused. The challenge having been disallowed, the prisoner excepted.

Bell having stated on his vow dire that he had formed a fixed deliberate opinion, and that it would take strong evidence to remove it, was thus interrogated by the judge:

Q. Do you mean that your opinion is so fixed and deliberate that your mind…