State v. Hoxsie
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Exceptions to the Court of Common Pleas.
1Opinion of the CourtDureee, C. J.
This case comes ' up on exceptions from the Court of Common Pleas. It is an indictment for nuisance under Pub. Stat. R. I. cap. 80. The indictment was found and tried at the May Term, 1884.
The first exception is for the refusal of the court below to allow the defendants to ask one of the jurors called to sit in the trial, on his voir dire, “ whether he had contributed money for the purpose of prosecuting persons charged with keeping liquor nuisances, and having them bound over to the Court of Common Pleas for indictment at said May Term.” The contention is that the juror was open to challenge…
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