Commonwealth v. Heffelfinger

Opinion by

Henderson, J.,

The appellant first complains that the court erred in refusing to withdraw a juror as set forth in the first assignment, the occasion for such application being the remark of the court drawn out in a colloquy with the defendant’s counsel with reference to the significance of the term “criminal abortion,” a fnedical witness having used the phrase. Objection was made to the use of the word criminal whereupon that was stricken from the record, and in that connection the court said “I do not think it hurts you because there is not any other kind that could apply to this…