Jones v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
This was an indictment, for the larceny of a slave, found against John G. Jones, the plaintiff in error, Allen Jones, William Adams, and Wilson Chambers, tried before Judge Merriwether, in the Superior Court of the county of Wilkinson, at October Term, 1846. When the cause was called for trial, the counsel for the prisoners announced that they were ready for trial, and that they would sever on the trial.
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This was an indictment, for the larceny of a slave, found against John G. Jones, the plaintiff in error, Allen Jones, William Adams, and Wilson Chambers, tried before Judge Merriwether, in the Superior Court of the county of Wilkinson, at October Term, 1846. When the cause was called for trial, the counsel for the prisoners announced that they were ready for trial, and that they would sever on the trial. The solicitor-general responded, that he was ready in behalf of the State. The prisoners’ counsel then inquired which the State designed to try first ? to which the solicitor-general replied,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court
Warner, Judge.
In this case, the counsel for tho prisoner insisted on the right to aslt a juror, on his voire dire, after answering tho questions propounded by the act of 1843, if he had formed and expressed any opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner at the bar, which was denied by the court. In the ease of Robinson vs. The State of Georgia, decided during the present term, we held, the prisoner had not the right to ask that question of the juror on his voire dire ; but if he wished to show the incompetency of the juror' on that ground, hé must do so before triers, to…
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