State v. Fuller
Supreme Court of North Carolina
lN»rcTMKNT for murder, tried before Bryan, J., and a jury, at Fall Term, 1893, of Cumberland Superior Court. The exception to the ruling of the Court permitting the State to challenge a juror, who had been tendered to the prisoner, appears in the opinion.
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lN»rcTMKNT for murder, tried before Bryan, J., and a jury, at Fall Term, 1893, of Cumberland Superior Court. The exception to the ruling of the Court permitting the State to challenge a juror, who had been tendered to the prisoner, appears in the opinion. The prisoner presented affidavits, charging improper conduct on the part of the jury and of the officer who had them in charge, and showing, or tending to show, bias on the part of J. C. Tew, one of the jurors, and from said affidavits the Court found the following facts: “That eleven of the jurors were shaved by one of their number in their…
1Opinion of the Court
Avery, J.:
After all of his peremptory challenges had been exhausted the juror Hawley was passed by the State and tendered to and accepted by the prisoner. As tire Clerk was about to swear him he asked to be excused upon the ground that he was an intimate and life-long friend to the prisoner and connected with him by marriage. Further investigation developed the fact that no relationship either by consanguinity or affinit}r existed between the prisoner and the juror, but that a first cousin of the prisoner had married the juror’s second cousin. After correctly ruling that no sufficient cause…
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