Case Name: Herndon vs. Bradshaw
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1815-04-25
Citations: 4 Bibb 45
Docket Number: 
Parties: Herndon vs. Bradshaw.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 7
Pages: 45–45

Head Matter:
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:
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.