People v. Edwards

The appeal is from the judgment and from the order denying a new trial.

Defendant was charged, upon information, with the crime of rape upon a girl then under the age of sixteen years.

I. It is claimed that -the court erred in refusing to allow defendant’s counsel to examine a juror upon- the voir dire, for the purpose of determining whether or not a peremptory challenge should be used upon him. The records of the cases appealed to this court in which rulings made while impanel-ling a jury have been involved, indicate that there is an increasing tendency to prolong the proceedings inordinately…