Supreme Court of Louisiana December 15, 1861 (State v. Gallagher)

Yoobhies, J.

The ground upon which the accused applied for a new trial in the Court below, was: that James Goodwin, one of the jurors, who tried this prosecution, had stated on his voir dire, in answer to a question propounded by the State, that he had neither formed nor expressed an opinion in the matter; whilst, as the prisoner states in his motion, he had discovered since the trial that tMs