State v. Claire

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Bermudez, C. J.

The defendants were prosecuted for murder, tried, convicted without capital punishment and sentenced to hard labor for life.

The record contains three bills of exceptions and a motion for a new trial.

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The first bill is taken to the refusal of the trial j udge, to allow to the accused to cross-examine a juror on his voir dire.

It appears that, on direct examination by the State, the juror having' declared that he had a prejudice in favor of the accused, the Attorney General moved that he be rejected and the court did so, declaring him…