Conatser v. State

'Appeal in error from a judgment of conviction of the crime of murder in the second degree.

*438The principal ground relied on for reversal .is in the ruling of the trial judge on the competency of certain jurors. The defendant, after exhausting his challenges, was compelled to accept three jurors over his objection to their competency. These jurors all made substantially the same statements. Each juror said he had formed or expressed an opinion as to.the guilt or innocence of the prisoner from rumor. The trial judge then asked the juror: “You say you have formed an opinion from rumor, is" it from…