State v. Swartz

The opinion of the court was delivered by

BENSON, J.:

This is an appeal from a conviction for statutory rape upon one of sixteen counts of the information.

Errors are assigned upon rulings made in impaneling the jury, in the admission of testimony, and in the instructions.

A juror was asked the following question by the appéllant’s attorney:

“Q. The penalty for these crimes charged in this information, if the defendant was convicted of all of the crimes charged, would be from 80 to 336 years in the penitentiary; do you think that too severe ?”

An objection was sustained, whereupon another question…