State v. McDonald
South Dakota Supreme Court
. Error to circuit court; Hamlin county. Hon. Julian Bennett, Judge. Lewis McDonald was convicted of arson and brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtCorson, J.
The questions presented by the assignment of errors in this case are as follows: “(1) That the facts stated in the information do not constitute a public offense; (2) that the verdict rendered by the jury is a nulity: (3) that the verdict is against the law and the evidence; (4) that one of the trial jurors was incompetent by reason of actual bias, he having a fixed and unchangeable’opinion that the plaintiff in errqr was guilty of the offense charged, and had expressed such an opinion before he entered the jury box.” The information upon which the plaintiff in error was tried and convicted,…
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