60 P. 610 | Or. | 1900
Lead Opinion
after stating the facts, delivered the opinion of the court.
But, however this may be, the legislative assembly of
Assuming, without deciding, that the authority of the court to appoint such person is clear, and that the obligation to do so is imperative, was such power evaded or duty violated in the present instance? The solution of this problem must depend upon whether the sheriff was interested in the result of the action. The mere expression of an opinion, from the facts before him, as to the defendant’s guilt, did not necessarily render him interested in the result of the action, or disqualify him from selecting talesmen: People v. Shuler, 28 Cal. 490. In Friery v. People, 2 Abb. Dec. 215, a jury having been impaneled, the accused submitted a challenge to the array, the first ground of which was that the sheriff or summoning officer had formed or expressed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner. Mr. Justice Wright, in commenting upon this question, says : “Plainly, the first ground of challenge was without substance. The idea that the mere expression of an opinion’by the officer
If the jury believed the testimony of this witness, they inight have reasonably inferred, from a consideration of other testimony hereinafter adverted to, that the robbery of the Pacific Express Company was contemplated by the defendant when he invited Jackson to go to Hog Canyon to hold up a passenger train; H. Beckwith, a witness for the state, testified that for seven or eight years prior to the larceny charged in the indictment the Pacific Express Company was the only company engaged in the express business on the railroad of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company between Portland and The Dalles,
I, Guy A. Brown, appointed by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska to compile the general laws of said state, do hereby certify that the several acts and resolutions contained in this volume are, with the exception of words contained in ( ), true and accurate copies of the original rolls on file in the office of the secretary of state of said state. Guy A. Brown, Compiler.”
The state was also permitted to offer in evidence, over defendant’s objection and exception, what purported to be a certified copy of articles of incorporation of the Pacific Express Company, under the hand and seal of G. S. Haws, Secretary of State of the State of Nebraska, and also to offer testimony tending to show that the Pacific Express Company had been engaged in the general express business in the State of Oregon about nine years ; that it employed clerks, messengers, and route and express agents, and maintained express offices in this state ; that it issued receipts for money deposited with it for transportation over the lines on which it operated, several of which receipts were offered in evidence ; that it promulgated rules, and sent them to its agents for their guidance ; that it had a president and secretary; and that H. Beckwith, its route agent, deposited for it with the State Treasurer of the State of Oregon the sum of $50,000 in United States bonds.
Our statute provides, in effect, that books printed and published under the authority of a sister state, and purporting to contain the statutes of such state, are admissible in this state as evidence of such law: Hill’s Ann. Laws, § 725. Sections 123 and 124 of the Compiled Statutes of Nebraska were therefore admissible in evidence, as were also the articles of incorporation of the Pacific Express Company; but whether such articles comply with the requirements of said sections it is not necessary to determine, for an examination thereof shows
Rehearing
On Petition eor. Rehearing.
[62 Pac. 1128.]
delivered the opinion.
The court having refused to permit Simmons to answer the questions propounded to him on his cross-examination, defendant’s counsel called him as their witness and on his direct examination secured the information which they sought; and this presents the question whether, if it be assumed that an error was committed in the
We think that defendant’s counsel, by making Simmons their witness and proving by him on his direct examination the fact which they were prevented from showing on his cross-examination, thereby waived the error of which they now complain, and hence the petition for a rehearing is overruled. Rehearing Denied.