People v. Edwards
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Thirteenth Judicial District, County of Tulare. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Wallace, J.:
The prisoner was convicted of the crime of murder in the second degree, in killing one Ragan.
In impaneling the trial jury, R. Carrol, testifying as to his competency to serve as a juror, in answer to questions propounded by prisoner’s counsel, stated that he had formed an opinion as to the guilt pr innocence of the prisoner, but did not know whether that opinion was qualified or unqualified; that his opinion was formed from rumor and from what he *642had heard of the case from those who pretended to know the facts; that he believed the statements of these persons, though…
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