McMillan

People v. McMillan

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1922 Cal. App. LEXIS 149·59 Cal. App. 785·212 P. 38
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaNovember 27, 1922Crim. No. 639.California636 words

Opinion

lead Opinion

Finch, J.

The defendant appeals from the judgment of conviction herein of the crime of rape upon a girl of the age of fourteen years and from the order denying his motion for a new trial.

Appellant contends that the court erred in denying defendant’s challenge for cause interposed to one of the jurors on the ground of actual bias. The juror was subsequently challenged peremptorily by defendant. He thereafter peremptorily challenged other jurors and exhausted his ten peremptory challenges, but it does not appear that any juror who served on the trial was unsatisfactory to defendant. The facts are similar to those in the case of People v. Schafer, 161 Cal. 573, 576 [ 119 Pac. 920, 921 ], where it is said: “While the record shows that the defendant did subsequently exhaust his ten peremptory challenges, it does not appear that he had occasion or desire to use an additional peremptory challenge, or that each and all of the twelve jurors finally accepted and sworn were not entirely satisfactory to him. . . . This is not enough to warrant reversal for error in the ruling on the challenge for cause.” To the same effect is the holding in People v. Kromphold, 172 Cal. 512 [ 157 Pac. 599 ], In view…

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