Court Opinion

ID: 3666912
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 06:16:41.656183+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:08:45.389033
License: Public Domain

The prisoner moved, before judgment, to set aside the verdict, and have a new venire because of the denial of his prayer for a jury de medietate, which being refused, and judgment pronounced, the prisoner appealed.
Judge Williams informed me that he allowed it at a court of oyer and terminer held at Wilmington many years ago for the trial of some prisoners who were aliens and natives of France. *Page 89 
GASTON: It seems, then, to have been considered the law; the Legislature has not since altered it.
Attorney-General for the State.                           (204)
The Court differed in opinion, HALL and HENDERSON holding that the prisoner was not entitled to a jury de medietate, and the Chief Justice
that he was, and they delivered their respective opinions seriatim, as follows: