Juror discharged for illness
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From 55 U.S. 218 - Horace Silsby Washburn Race Abel Downs Henry Herrion and Charles Thompson v. Elisha Foote · 1852Most cited · 52 citing opinions
We think it was not erroneous for the presiding Judge to treat the physical inability of the juror as simply creating a vacancy on the panel, and proceeding to fill it in the usual way by having a twelfth juror drawn and sworn. ... In such a case we think it rested in the discretion of the court whether the withdrawal of a juror should be treated simply as occasioning a vacancy on a still existing panel, or as breaking up the panel altogether.