People v. Scoggins

By the Court, Crockett, J.:

The defendant was indicted for the crime of murder, in the killing of one Joseph E. Lowery. On the trial in the District Court, in impaneling the jury the defendant claimed the right to have the names of twelve jurors drawn from the jury hox, and to examine them all, as to their qualification to serve as jurors, before exercising his right of peremptory challenge as to any. But the Court directed the Clerk to draw from the hox the name of one juror at a time, and required the defendant to examine and pass upon *678each one so drawn, before another name was drawn, and…