Case ID: ky_7/html/0045-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Owsiey.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Herndon vs. Bradshaw.
    April 25.
    If a jurorwas on the Sift ^efeeond trial" and the cau/e of challenge be ¿¡('covered until after the fecund deied^ 'VT ¿“'¡⅛ afide the fecond ve'diit-
   OPINION of the Court, by

Judge Owsiey.

There appears to have been one new trial “granted, in this case at the instance of Herndon, and after a second verdict was found against him-, he again applied for a new trial, on the grounds of his having discovered, since the finding of the verdict, that one of the former jury composed part of the latter ; hut the court refused his application; and the only question for the decision of this court is as to the correctness of the opinion ofrhat court.

There is no doubt hut what the j uror was incompetent, and might have been challenged before he was sworn: and as that cause of challenge was not known to the at-torftey of Herndon, until after the finding, of the verdict, (Herndon himself not being present) according to- the ease of M’Kinley vs. Smith, Hard. Rep. Í67, and Pierce vs. Bush, (vol. 3, 347) it furnished a good cause for a new trial. The court, therefore, upon the affidavit of the attorney proving the discovery, should have awarded a new trial.

The judgment "must be reversed with costs, and the cause remanded to the court below for a new trial.