People v. Renfrow

Citations

• 41 Cal. 37

Syllabus

<p>Challenge of Juror.—A challenge of a juror in a criminal case must specify the particular ground of challenge. If for hias, it must state what kind of bias, and the particular cause from which such bias is to be inferred.</p> <p>Challenge to Juror for Actual Bias.—A challenge to a juror for factual bias must be entered on the minutes of the Court; and an application must be made to the Court to have triers appointed.</p> <p>Exception to Ruling of Court.—When the Court overrules a challenge, and the prisoner excepts, the exception is to the decision overruling the challenge, and not to the right of the Court to decide the question at all.</p> <p>Inadmissible Evidence.—Where a party on trial for murder offered to prove that the deceased had said, in conversation some three years before the killing, that he had enemies in the county who, he was afraid, would take his life: held, that the evidence was properly excluded.</p>