Wood v. State

Citations

• 62 Miss. 220

Syllabus

<p>Juror. Defective examination. Incompetency discovered after conviction of defendants Practice.</p> <p>Where a defendant in an indictment, after asking the jury called to try his. case only the general question, “ whether any juror on the panel knows any reason why he should not sit as a juror in the ease,” and, receiving no response, accepts the jury and is convicted, he is not entitled to a new trial because of discovering after the trial the incompetency of one of the jurors, if such incompetency could have been discovered by making the inquiriea usually propounded to jurors to test their competency.</p>