State v. Russell

On the trial of defendant for statutory rape, four prospective jurors disclosed on voir dire examination that they had served as jurors in a case theretofore tried in which one Chambers had been convicted of a like offense against the complaining witness in the case at bar. A challenge for cause on this ground was interposed to each and by the court overruled. On further examination each of these prospective jurors then answered that he had heard the complaining witness state, in the Chambers Case, that she had had sexual intercourse with the defendant in this case. Each, however, testified…