People v. Welmer

This case comes to this court from the Hillsdale circuit' on exceptions before sentence. The respondents were charged with the violation of the local option law of that county, and, on a trial before a jury, were convicted. The only point we need consider is the refusal of the court to allow to each respondent the number pf peremptory challenges to jurors each would be entitled to if tried separately. After the defense had challenged five of the jurors peremptorily, and such jurors had been excused by the court, they then challenged one more juror peremptorily, and sought to excuse him from…