Lee v. Peter
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Montgomery county court. This was an action of Slander, instituted by the appellant against the appellee, on the 13th November, 1830. Issue was joined upon the plea of not guilty.
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Appeal from Montgomery county court. This was an action of Slander, instituted by the appellant against the appellee, on the 13th November, 1830. Issue was joined upon the plea of not guilty. At the trial the following exceptions were taken by the parties. 1. This case being called for trial, and a panel of twenty jurors drawn from the ballot box, according to law, and presented to each party to strike from, according to the same law, and after the defendant had struck from the copy of the panel presented to him, and delivered back his copy of the panel so struck by him, to the clerk, and the…
1Opinion of the CourtDorsey, J.
The object of the 9th section of the act of assembly of 1797, ch. 87, was to give to the parties, plaintiff and defendant, each the privilege of striking from the list of twenty jurors, four of the jurors, against whom no cause of challenge could be established. In express terms, it saves to the parties the unimpaired enjoyment of the right of challenge. It is, consequently the duty of the court, when required so to do, to extend to suitors the full benefit of both these privileges. Such is manifestly the policy and intent of the act of 1797. Each party is authorised, without any cause of…
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