Case Name: UNITED STATES v. RANDALL
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1823-05
Citations: 27 F. Cas. 696
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNITED STATES v. RANDALL.
Judges: (THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent,)
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 27
Pages: 696–696

Head Matter:
Case No. 16,117.
UNITED STATES v. RANDALL.
[2 Cranch. C. C. 412.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
May Term, 1823.
Criminal Law—Discharge of Juror.
After the jury is sworn, in a capital case, and the cause has been opened, the court cannot, without the prisoner’s consent, discharge a juror, at his own request.
Indictment [against the negro Randall] for a rape on Maria Schcals.
After the jury was sworn, and the attorney for the United States had advanced considerably in opening the case, John Morgan, a quaker, one of the jurors, asked the court to excuse him from serving on the jury in this ease, as he could not, consistently with his feelings, serve íd a case of life and death.

Opinion:
THE COURT
(THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent,)
said they could not now excuse the juror, without the consent of the prisoner; which was not given; and the juror was not excused.