 The opinion which has been avowed by the court, is, that light impressions which may fairly be supposed to yield to the testimony that may be offered; which may leave the mind open to a fair consideration of that testimony, constitute no sufficient objection...  Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan - Page 227by Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, Elijah W. Meddaugh, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, William Jennison, William Dudley Fuller, Hovey K. Clarke, John Adams Brooks, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Aaron Burr - Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 - 1808 - 608 pages
...to a fair consideration of that testimony, constitute no sufficient objection to a juror ; but that those strong and deep impressions, which will close...which will combat that testimony and resist its force, do constitute a sufficient objection to him. Those who try the impartiality of a juror, ought to test... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1847 - 710 pages
...to a fair consideration of that testimony, constitute no sufficient objection to a juror ; but that those strong and deep impressions which will close...which will combat that testimony and resist its force, do constitute a sufficient objection to him. Those who try the impartiality of a juror, ought to test... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court, Merritt M. Robinson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1847 - 724 pages
...which leave the mind open to a fair consideration of it, are no sufficient objection to a juror ; but those strong and deep impressions which will close the mind against the testimony that maybe offered in opposition to them, and which will combat and resist its force, constitute a sufficient... | |
 | William Freeman, Benjamin Franklin Hall - Insanity (Law) - 1848 - 516 pages
...to a fair consideration of that testimony, constitute no sufficient objection to a juror. But that those strong and deep impressions which will close...which will combat that testimony and resist its force, do constitute a sufficient objection to him. Those who try the impartiality of a juror ought to test... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 798 pages
...Justice Marshall to be no ground for excluding a juror: 'Those light impressions, which may fairly be supposed to yield to the testimony that may be offered,...Trial, 416. See, also, Osiander's Case, 3 Leigh, 785 (24 Am. Dec. 693); Smith v. Eames, 3 Scam. 78 (36 Am. Dec. 515); Bradford v. State, 15 Ind. 351; State... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1852 - 890 pages
...which leave the mind open to a fair consideration of it, are no sufficient objection to a juror ; but those strong and deep impressions, which will close...testimony that may be offered in opposition to them, and which will combat and resist its force, constitute a sufficient objection. Ib. 12. Where the extent... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 716 pages
...to a fair consideration of that testimony, constitute no sufficient objection to a juror; but that those strong and deep impressions which will close...which will combat that testimony and resist its force, do constitute a sufficient objection to him." (2) x We fttke it, then, as settled, that the opinion... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 648 pages
...an opinion. A prejudice is, in some sense, an opinion. In Burr's case, Chief Justice Marshall said : "Those strong and deep impressions which will close the mind against the testimony which may be offered in opposition to them, which will combat that testimony and resist its force,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 696 pages
...testimony, constitute no sufficient objection to a juror; but that those strong and deep impressions which close the mind against the testimony that may be offered...which will combat that testimony and resist its force, do constitute a sufficient objection to him." The theory of the law is that a juror who has formed... | |
 | Robert Templeman Craighill - Virginia - 1880 - 378 pages
...to a fair consideration of that testimony, constitute no sufficient objection to a juror; but that those strong and deep impressions, which will close...which will combat that testimony and resist its force, do constitute a sufficient objection to him. Those who try the impartiality of a juror, ought to test... | |
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