State ex rel. Ramsay v. Judge Third District

Dissenting Opinion.

Nicholls, 0. J.

The relator seeks to obtain from this court, under its supervisory jurisdiction, a writ of mandamus to compel the District Judge in and for the parish of Claiborne to sign a bill of exception accompanying his petition, and to which is annexed certain questions propounded to and answered by one J. M. H. Taylor, who was tendered as a juryman in the case pf the State vs. Nick Ramsey, reeentiy decided, in which case relator was the defendant, and in which he stood charged with murder. Relator’s claim is that Taylor, being called as a juryman, was sworn on his…