Haynes v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Murder, in Fulton Superior Court. Tried before Judge Warner, October Term, 1854. While impannelling the Jury in this case, the State put upon the prisoner one Reuben Haynes, and also one William McWilliams, without first administering either the oaths prescribed by the Statute of December, 1843, or the oath prescribed by the Act of 1853, to wit: “Have you any conscientious scruples with regard to capital punishment.”
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Murder, in Fulton Superior Court. Tried before Judge Warner, October Term, 1854. While impannelling the Jury in this case, the State put upon the prisoner one Reuben Haynes, and also one William McWilliams, without first administering either the oaths prescribed by the Statute of December, 1843, or the oath prescribed by the Act of 1853, to wit: “Have you any conscientious scruples with regard to capital punishment.” The hill of exceptions states that the prisoner accepted both the Jurors, without requesting the oaths to he administered. The State also put upon the prisoner one Thomas A. Wib…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
Counsel for the prisoner having relied on six grounds only for a reversal of the judgment in the Court below, the rest being waived in the argument, the decision will be restricted to the first five — this Court declining to express any opinion as to the weight of the evidence.
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