Whitcomb v. State

The defendant (plaintiff in error), found guilty of felony, complains of error in the trial court’s overruling of his challenges to seven jurors, made on their voir dire examination. These jurors answered that they had formed opinions as to the guilt or innocence of the defendant, and some of them answered that their opinions were such as it would take evidence to remove. These opinions had been formed from what they had heard or read in the newspapers, hut not from conversations with any person who had witnessed or claimed to have witnessed the crime, or from a record of the testimony of…