Noland

This is a writ of error to review a judgment of conviction under the White Slave Traffic Act (Comp. St. §§ 8812-8819).

At the commencement of the trial, counsel for the plaintiff in error called attention to some new rule of the court, and stated that he desired the record to show that he requested the privilege of examining prospective jurors individually on their voir dire. The court refused this request, but permitted counsel to examine the jurors collectively, or as a whole. In the course of the examination, counsel asked the jurors whether any of them had ever been a witness in a similar case. The court stated that this question went beyond the rule, and sustained an objection. Counsel then caused to be placed in the record four or five additional questions, and now assigns error on the refusal of the court to permit these questions to be propounded or answered. The record discloses no such ruling. The only rulings made by the court, so far as the record discloses, was the ruling refusing to permit counsel to examine the jurors individually and the ruling sustaining an objection to the first question above set forth. We are satisfied that there was no abuse of discretion in…