Allison v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Indiana county: Of October and November Term 1881, No. 167. indictment of James E. Allison for the murder of his father, Bobert Allison. Plea, not guilty. On the trial, before Blair, P. J., the Commonwealth’s evidence was to the following effect: Bobert Allison, the deceased, was about seventy years of age. Prior to 1877, he lived with his family on his farm in Washington township.
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Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Indiana county: Of October and November Term 1881, No. 167. indictment of James E. Allison for the murder of his father, Bobert Allison. Plea, not guilty. On the trial, before Blair, P. J., the Commonwealth’s evidence was to the following effect: Bobert Allison, the deceased, was about seventy years of age. Prior to 1877, he lived with his family on his farm in Washington township. His family consisted of his wife, two daughters and three sons. Owing to fights and quarrels with his wife and children, and particularly with his son James, he left his…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
The first six assignments allege that the court below erred in overruling the prisoner’s challenges for cause to the jurors who are respectively named in said assignments.
As all of these challenges rest upon the same principle, it will be sufficient to discuss one of them. I have selected that of the juror John Phillips, which is believed to embody all of the objections made to either of the others.
The juror had stated on his voir dire that he had formed an opinion ; that he believed the prisoner guilty. The prisoner’s counsel then asked him this question: “ That was your deliberate…
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