Iverson v. State

On the trial of this cause, one O. C. Young was drawn and called as a juror, and was asked by the court whether he had been a householder or a freeholder for the past twelve months ; the juror answered, “ I am not a householder, but have rented land for the past twelve months.” The defendant insisted that the juror was incompetent to sit upon his case ; but the court ruled that he was a competent juror, to which ruling the defendant excepted and then excused the juror from the panel.

Section 4180 of the Revised Code provides that it is a good ground of challenge by either party, in a case like…