Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-11-24

K. l.. quinn OF BelHel lo"HSLip, Hd'
seen and read newspaper accounts IL
The Yorkville Enquirer and Columbii
State. He had said Something abou
the case" He was challenged by th'
defense.
L. B. Love said he had not read many
papers about the case. He was ac'
cepted.
]. w. Mcfarland said he had stated
FAIRIES should not be tried by Yori
county jury. The juror was challenged
by the state.
r. z. Mcfarland said he had formed
no opinion relative to the guilt or in
nocence of the accused. He could give
a fair and impartial trial, he said, and
he was accepted.
Hugh c. Robinson was excused be-
cause Of relation to the prisoner.
A. B. Clark had read accounts Of the
case carried in The Yorkville Enquirer
He declared that he had expressed an
opinion to several people that the de-
fendant should be electrocuted. He
was challenged by the state.
N. c. McCorkle was excused by rea-
son of the fact that he was related to
one o. counsel for the state.
W. H. Dunlap was accepted.
w. c. Hutchison was stood aside by
the court He said it would take
mighty good evidence to change his
opinion"
Sam ]. Matthews was excused be-
cause he was a witness.
E. p. Steele said he had formed an
opinion; but had not expressed it. He
had read statements in The Yorkville
Enquirer and The State about the case.
He was challenged by the defense,
Judge Peurifoy refusing to set him
aside.
w. II. Benfield was ordered to stand
aside by the court. He said it would
take strong evidence to change his
opinion.
C. E. Porcher said he had discussed
the FAIRIES case with various people.
He read no newspaper reports-only
the head lines. He was challenged by
the state
j. E Jackson said he had read ac-
counts Of the affair in The Yorkville
Enquirer. He said he had formed the
opinion that the defendant should pay
the penalty. The defense challenged
him.
j. r. Neil said that although he had
read many newspaper accounts, he be-
lieved ne could give fair and impair
tial trial, based on the evidence. He
was accepted.
r. E. Montgomery said he had read
lots of papers and all of them about
the case" He was ordered aside by
the court when he said that what he
had read might affect his decision.
]. T. Crawford had read The Enqui-
rer and The State relative to the case.
If what he has seen in the papers is
corroborated by the evidence he would
convict the defendant. He denied he
had a fixed conviction that the defend
ant, FAIRIES, was guilty. The defense
challenged him. '''
C. E. Moore said he had expressed
the opinion that the defendant should
be electrocuted. He based that opinion
on newspaper reports. He could give
a fair and impartial trial. He was
challenged by the defense.
]. p. Miller said he had formed an
opinion; but he could give fair and
impartial trial. The state challenged
him. ~
Cephus Merritt said he had formed
an opinion relative to the case, and
that opinion might influence him. The
court ordered him to stand aside.
]. S. Fursley was excused because he
was related to the defendant.
Andral Anderson had read newspa-
per accounts and he had expressed the
opinion that FAIRIES should be electro
cuted. He said that he would give a
fair trial, according to the law and ev-
idence regardless of what he had said.
Objected to by the defense.
During the voir dire examination of
vemremen, Mr.. McDow several times
succeeded in getting different venire-
men to say that it would require con-
siderable evidence to overcome the
opinions they had formed from what
they had read in the newspapers, and
this, he submitted as conclusive of
incapacity to give a fair trial. In
reply Solicitor Spears would ask a
question that would bring the reply
that regardless Of what the veniremen
had read, his verdict would be influ-
enced only by the sworn testimony and
the law, and then he would submit to
the court: May it please your Honor,
if veniremen were to be stood aside on
that ground, your Honor I could not
try the case and l would not be quail
fled to prosecute it." His Honor would
order that the juror be presented and
the defense would object.