Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment and conviction for murder. From Richmond Superior Court. Tried before Judge Holt. June Term, 1847. This cause was tried upon a plea of not guilty.
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Indictment and conviction for murder. From Richmond Superior Court. Tried before Judge Holt. June Term, 1847. This cause was tried upon a plea of not guilty. After the arraignment was made and the usual preliminary steps taken, a panel of forty-eight jurors was presented to the prisoner, and several jurors were selected and sworn to try the cause, when John Barnes, one of the panel was called, and by the State’s attorneyputupon the prisonei’, who required him tobe sworn upon his voire dire, and examined touching his competency; and having answered both questions prescribed by the statute…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.,
delivering the opinion.
This is a writ of error to a judgment of the Superior Court of Richmond county, whereby the plaintiff in error was convicted of murder.
When the venire in this case was called, John Barnes, one of them, was put upon the prisoner, who required him to be sworn upon his voire dire. He answered both questions prescribed by the statute negatively, and then voluntarily added, that he had conscientious scruples against the infliction of capital punishment; whereupon the Court permitted the Attorney General to challenge said juror for cause, the…
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