Leigh v. Territory of Arizona
Arizona Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District in and for the County of Mohave. R. E. Sloan, Judge. The facts so far as pertinent are stated in the opinion. The jurors Haskins, Irwin, Miller, and White were incompetent and unqualified, and the court erred in denying defendant’s challenge to them and should not have caused defendant to exercise upon them his peremptory challenges. Rev. Stats.
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APPEAL from a judgment of the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District in and for the County of Mohave. R. E. Sloan, Judge. The facts so far as pertinent are stated in the opinion. The jurors Haskins, Irwin, Miller, and White were incompetent and unqualified, and the court erred in denying defendant’s challenge to them and should not have caused defendant to exercise upon them his peremptory challenges. Rev. Stats. Ariz. 1901, title 9, chap. 1, sec. 915; Reynolds v. United States, 98 U. S. 145, 25 L. Ed. 244; Territory v. Davis, 2 Ariz. 63, 10 Pac. 359. It is almost a universal rule…
1Opinion of the CourtKent, C. J.
The only questions raised by the appellant in his assignment of errors, and upon the incomplete record which we have before us, are as to the correctness of the rulings of the trial court upon the challenges for éause to certain jurors. The first assignment of error is as follows: “The court erred in not sustaining the challenge for cause of defendant to the jurors: G. S. Haskins, Frank Irwin, George W. Miller, and Peter F. White, and caused defendant to exercise a peremptory challenge upon each of the above-named jurors, to his harm, for the reason that said jurors had expressed an…
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