Rabideau v. United States

There is no merit in the contention of error in the court’s refusal at the close of the evidence, on appellant’s motion, to order a mistrial on the asserted ground that one of the jurors had at one time been a deputy clerk of a state circuit court. This would have been no lawful ground for challenge for cause, and, besides, such matters are within the court’s discretion, and nothing appears to indicate any abuse of its discretion.

It is insisted there was no evidence to warrant the jury in concluding that appel*910lant owned or was interested in the premises found to be a public nuisance, or had…