State v. Farris

Citations

• 26 Wash. 205
• 66 P. 412
• 1901 Wash. LEXIS 629

Syllabus

<p>HOMICIDE-INSTRUCTIONS-HARMLESS ERROR.</p> <p>Where a court has fully and clearly charged the jury upon the subject of the character of premeditation and deliberation required under the law to constitute murder in the first degree, the subsequent use of an inapt and meaningless word, in defining to the jury the meaning of the terms “premeditation” and “deliberation,” would not constitute reversible. error.</p> <p>JURORS-COMPETENCY.</p> <p>The fact that a juror has formed an impression as to the guilt or innocence of defendant from having read an account of the homicide in a newspaper and talked about >t with his neighbors would not disqualify him, where it appeared that such opinion or impression was a qualified one, which he could disregard absolutely upon the trial of the case.</p>