State v. . Fuller

The exception to the ruling of the court, permitting the State to challenge a juror who had been tendered to the prisoner, appears in the opinion.

The prisoner presented affidavits, charging improper conduct on the part of the jury and of the officer who had them in charge, and showing, or tending to show, bias on the part of T.C. Tew, one of the jurors, and from said affidavits the court found the following (887) facts:

That eleven of the jurors were shaved by one of their number, in their room in Saturday evening, the third day of the trial, and the other (a colored man) was carried to a…