Brown v. State

1. It seems that Cohen was indicted, tried and convicted for the offense of buying the vote of Sam Brown. The latter was put upon his trial for the offense of selling his vote to Cohen. It appears that certain jurors who had served upon the jury which had tried Cohen were put upon Brown. They were asked the statutory questions provided in the code to be propounded to jurors in the trial of a felony, and it seems that they qualified as jurors to try Brown for the misdemeanor with which he was charged. Brown’s counsel challenged four of the jurors, put them upon the court as a trior, suggested…