United States v. McHenry
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
This was an indictment [against John D. McHenry] for perjury, tried before BENEDICT, District Judge. After conviction, the prisoner moved in arrest of judgment, and for a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
BENEDICT, District Judge.
The several propositions which have been pressed upon my attention, with such commendable earnestness, in support of these motions, have received my careful attention.
The first error supposed to have been committed, consisted in overruling the challenge of the prisoner to the juryman Brown. Upon this point, it seems sufficient to say, that the testimony of the juror showed, beyond question, that, although he had read about one-half of a column in a newspaper concerning the case, he had never formed any fixed opinion, or made up his mind, respecting the guilt of the…
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