State v. Bennett

The accused having been found guilty of murder and sentenced to be hung, has appealed, and relies upon five hills of exception :

1. The court did not err in refusing to allow the following question to be propounded to certain persons, called to serve as jurors, when they were being examined on their voire dire: “ Have you or not formed or expressed the opinion, from what you have heard of the case, that the defendant is guilty” ?

The question was not in legal form. It may be, a person may have formed an opinion of the guilt of an accused from rumor, yet that this opinion has not been so…