Simmons v. State

Hall, Justice.

Two only of tne numerous questions made by the motion for a new trial were insisted on in argument here, the others being properly abandoned as having neither force nor merit. The first that occurs in the progress of *610the trial, and which we will first notice, is that raised by the 3d and 4-th grounds of the motion for a new trial, which are in the following words:

(3.) “Because the court, when the second juror was called, and before the questions upon the voire dire had been propounded, counsel for defendant proposed to put the juror on triors as to his competency, and counsel…