A Treatise on the Criminal Law and Criminal Courts of the State of New York: And Upon the Jurisdiction, Duty and Authority of Justices of the Peace and Other Magistrates, and on the Power and Duty of Sheriffs, Constables, Peace Officers, Police Officers, &c., in Criminal Cases, Volume 2Banks & Brothers, 1883 - Criminal law |
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Page 748
... Challenge to the polls is also principal or for favor . Principal challenge to the polls may be first , propter defectum , as alienage , infancy , old age , want of property , or other necessary qualification ; second , propter affectum ...
... Challenge to the polls is also principal or for favor . Principal challenge to the polls may be first , propter defectum , as alienage , infancy , old age , want of property , or other necessary qualification ; second , propter affectum ...
Page 749
... challenge shall be passed upon by triors ; especially after the challenge has been passed upon by the court . ( 7 ) Upon challenges for favor on account of bias , although evidence that the juror has given credit to written or oral ...
... challenge shall be passed upon by triors ; especially after the challenge has been passed upon by the court . ( 7 ) Upon challenges for favor on account of bias , although evidence that the juror has given credit to written or oral ...
Page 750
... challenges ; but challenges for cause may be made . ( 6 ) ( 0 ) Freeman v . People , 4 Denio , 9 . Challenge to the panel , defined . ] — A challenge to the panel is an objection made to all the trial jurors returned , and may be taken ...
... challenges ; but challenges for cause may be made . ( 6 ) ( 0 ) Freeman v . People , 4 Denio , 9 . Challenge to the panel , defined . ] — A challenge to the panel is an objection made to all the trial jurors returned , and may be taken ...
Page 751
... challenge be allowed , the court must dis- charge the jury , so far as the trial of the indictment in question is con- cerned . If the challenge be disallowed , the court must direct the jury to be impanelled . ( § 368. ) Defendant to ...
... challenge be allowed , the court must dis- charge the jury , so far as the trial of the indictment in question is con- cerned . If the challenge be disallowed , the court must direct the jury to be impanelled . ( § 368. ) Defendant to ...
Page 752
... challenge . ] - Particular causes of challenge are of two kinds : 1. For such a bias , as , when the existence of the facts is ascertained , does in judgment of law disqualify the juror , and which is known in this Code as implied bias ...
... challenge . ] - Particular causes of challenge are of two kinds : 1. For such a bias , as , when the existence of the facts is ascertained , does in judgment of law disqualify the juror , and which is known in this Code as implied bias ...
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Page 818 - The Governor shall have the power to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons after conviction, for all offenses except treason and cases of impeachment, upon such conditions, and with such restrictions and limitations, as he may think proper, subject to such regulations as may be provided by law relative to the manner of applying for pardons.
Page 904 - A person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery, or a professional or registered nurse, shall not be allowed to disclose any information which he acquired in attending a patient in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity...
Page 802 - If the jury persist in finding an informal verdict, from which, however, it can be clearly understood, that their intention is to find in favor of the defendant, upon the issue, it must be entered in the terms in which it is found, and the court must give judgment of acquittal. But no judgment of conviction can be given, unless the jury expressly find against the defendant, upon the issue, or judgment be given against him on a special verdict.
Page 794 - When the jury have agreed upon their verdict, they must be conducted into court by the officer having them in charge. Their names must then be called, and if all do not appear, the rest must be discharged without giving a verdict In that event, the cause may be again tried, at the same or another term.
Page 904 - ... in the course of professional employment. 3. A clergyman or priest cannot, without the consent of the person making the confession, be examined as to any confession made to him in his professional character in the course of discipline enjoined by the church to which he belongs.
Page 1000 - ... 2. When it was used as the means of committing a felony; in which case it may be taken, on the warrant, from any house or other place in which it is concealed, or from the possession of the person by whom it was used in the commission of the crime; or of any other person in whose possession it may be; 3.
Page 974 - ... justices of the peace, whose term of office shall be four years. In case of an election to fill a vacancy occurring before the expiration of a full term, they shall hold for the residue of the unexpired term. Their number and classification may be regulated by law. Justices of the peace, and judges' or justices of inferior courts not of record, and their clerks, may be removed, after due notice and an opportunity of being heard by such courts as may be prescribed by law, for causes to be assigned...
Page 1001 - ... as the case may be, according to section 1533), to make immediate search on the person of CD (or in the house situated , describing it or any other place to be searched, with reasonable particularity, as the case may be...