State v. Gereke

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

John Gereke was convicted upon a charge of statutory rape, and appeals. In the course of the impaneling of the jury, and, so far at least as the record shows, before the defendant had exercised any of his peremptory challenges, the court excused a talesman who had been examined only as to his residence, refusing to allow any inquiry as to his qualifications except in that connection. The defendant claims that the evidence failed to show any incompetence on the part of the juror and that it was error for the court to dismiss him. Whether or…