· 2/28/1930
State v. Steensland
Citations
- 56 S.D. 534
- 229 N.W. 395
- 1930 S.D. LEXIS 31
How courts have described this case
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- ruling that the trial court should have removed a prospective juror who equivocated when asked if he had formed a fixed opinion about the accused’s guilt
- “some unseen pressure on the mind, drawing it to consequences which it sees, but cannot avoid, and placing it under a coercion which, while its results are clearly perceived, it is incapable of resisting”
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Judges: Brown, Burch, Campbell, Polley, Sherwood
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