Hicks v. State

Jonas Hicks was found guilty, without recommendation, of the murder of J arrett J. Davis, and to the judgment overruling his motion for a new trial he excepts.

1. In the impaneling of the jury, the statutory questions were propounded to three jurors who, by their answers to these questions, qualified as being competent and impartial. The defendant challenged their competency and put them upon the court as a trior, relying solely upon the following petition, signed by them, to prove their incompetency: “To the Hon. Z. A. Littlejohn, Judge of the Superior Court of said County. We, the…