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· 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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