State v. Wakefield

The first two errors are predicated upon the ruling of the court in permitting the prosecuting attorney, over the objection of the defendant, to propound to two jurymen, after the defendant had exhausted his peremptory challenges, the following question:

“If you were acting as a district attorney in this case, would you be willing to have a man who is in your present frame of mind to sit on a jury in a case that you were conducting?”

This question is objectionable. It does not necessarily tend to determine impartiality in the venireman. If the venireman was favorable to the state, he would…