Case ID: kirby_1/html/0013-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Tweedy v. Brush.
    If a juror before trial has given his opinion in a cause, and this he not known by the party, against whom the opinion operates, it is sufficient cause for an arrest.
    ActioN of trover, general issue pleaded, and verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff moved in arrest; and for cause alleged, that two of the jurors who tried said cause, and were in favor of said verdict, before they were sworn and impaneled to try the same, bad given their opinion in favor of the defendant: And that one of said jurors, after the cause was committed to them for their consideration, and before they bad delivered tlieir said verdict to tbe court, gave and published Iris opinion in said cause to other persons, not of tbe jury, and conversed with them respecting said cause.
    Motion in arrest sufficient.
   By the Court

(Sheerman, J., absent). On inquiry, it appears, that before tbe jury were impaneled, two of them bad formed and declared opinions in favor of tbe defendant, which was not known by‘the plaintiff. Therefore, this case has not bad a fair and impartial trial.