Greenfield v. . People
New York Court of Appeals
Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the fourth judicial department, to review judgment of the Court of Oyer and Terminer in and for the county of Oswego, entered upon a verdict convicting the plaintiff in error of the crime of murder in the first degree. (Reported below, 13 Hun, 242.) The facts pertinent to the questions discussed appear sufficiently in the opinion.
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Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the fourth judicial department, to review judgment of the Court of Oyer and Terminer in and for the county of Oswego, entered upon a verdict convicting the plaintiff in error of the crime of murder in the first degree. (Reported below, 13 Hun, 242.) The facts pertinent to the questions discussed appear sufficiently in the opinion. On a challenge for favor the prisoner was entitled to a juror wholly unbiased, unprejudiced and indifferent. Such challenge is to be determined by the court, and an exception lies thereto. (People v. Mallon, 3…
1Per curiam
In the view which we take of this case, it will be sufficient, if we notice with any particularity, the points of the plaintiff in error, based upon the overruling of his challenges to two of the persons who were sworn upon the panel of jurors by which he was tried and found guilty.
One of them was challenged for principal cause, and as having formed and expressed an opinion. Both were challenged for favor, and as not being indifferent and impartial.
There has always been a distinction between these two kinds of challenge ; and there is yet, notwithstanding modern legislation on the subject.…
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