Commonwealth v. Cooper

The defendant who has been convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree alleged exceptions at the trial to certain remarks of the presiding judge * made while the jurors were being empanelled, to the refusal to rule as requested, and to the exclusion of evidence. We shall consider these contentions in the order stated.

After nine jurors had been called, examined and accepted as required by R. L. c. 176, §§ 26, 28, the next juror drawn from the ballot box, upon being asked by the judge, “Are' your opinions such as to prevent you from returning a verdict of guilty against the defendant…