State v. Mullen

The accused having been convicted of the murder of one James McQlone, and sentenced to suffer the penalty of death, prosecutes this ap-. peal.

lie relies for a reversal of the judgment upon several supposed erroneous rulings of the District Court.

1. The first which he presents to our consideration is contained in a bill of exception taken to the interrogatory propounded by the Attorney General to the two jurors, James Bradly and Ii. Collier, “ whether they had conscientious scruples against finding a verdict which might result in the death of the prisoner” ?

The counsel for the accused does not…