243 Ind. 279 - Hatfield v. State

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Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2009

13 state decisions

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

¶1Dissenting Opinion.

Jackson, J.

¶2— It is apparent from the record in this case that the court committed reversible error in overruling appellant’s motion for a new trial.

¶3The record discloses that one of the jurors was, at, prior, during and after the trial a depressed chroni*289cally nervous person, under medical and psychiatric treatment, an inmate of a rest sanitorium, and addicted to the use of tranquilizers and drugs. Certainly he cannot be said to be a qualified, capable and competent juror under those circumstances.

¶4The judgment of the trial court should be reversed, and the cause remanded with instructions to sustain appellant’s motion for a new trial.

¶5Note. — Reported in 183 N. E. 2d 198.