Court Opinion

ID: 5622064
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 04:39:43.211233+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:37:27.687447
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Broyles, C. J.
1. The indictment was not subject to the general. or special demurrers interposed.
2. The court did not err in holding that one of the jurors was disqualified to serve as a member of the jury. The juror at first qualified himself by his answers to the voir dire questions put to him, but subsequently the cdurt aslced ‘him, was his mind perfectly impartial between the State •and the accused, and the juror replied that it was not. “Jurors on both the civil and criminal side of the court must be ‘omni ecoceptione majores.’” See, in this connection, Cambron v. State, 164 Ca. 111 (137 S. E. 780) ; Temples v. Central of Ga. Ry. Co., 15 Ga. App. 115 (82 S. E. 777) ; McLaren v. Birdsong, 24 Ga. 265, 269.
3. Under the particular facts of this ease, the remaining special ground of the motion for a new trial, contending that the indictment against Walter C. Taylor (referred to in the indictment1 in the instant case) was not a valid indictment, is without merit.
4. The evidence amply authorized the verdict, and the refusal to grant a new trial was not error.

Judgment affirmed.

Lulce, J., concurs. Bloockoorth, J., absent on account of illness.

W. B. Beniley, for plaintiff in error.
John A. Boylcin, solicitor-general, J. W. LeCraw, B. A. Stephens, contra.