¶1The majority of the Court think that this is not a disqualification. If it be so, then every juror who did not want to sit upon a case could intimate in some way or other that you had better not take him, and we would never get these cases tried, as it is an exceedingly unpleasant thing to sit in judgment upon a human life.
18 Del. 344
State v. Cole
Delaware Court of Oyer and Terminer
Decided November 25, 1899
Delaware Court of Oyer and Terminer · decided 1899-11-25
The defendant, Montyiaoo A. Cole, was indicted by the grand jury in September, 1899, and the case was postponed to November, on account of the absence of a material witness for the defense. The prisoner was charged with murder of the first degree of William A. Montague, of Wyoming, Delaware, on May 17, 1899, on East Second Street in the City of Wilmington.
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Decided 1899-11-25
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