Identifier: reportoftrialofw00durr (find matches)
Title: Report of the trial of William Henry Theodore Durrant, indicted for the murder of Blanche Lamont, before the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco : including a full history of the case after defendant's conviction ... : also including a complete synopsis of the evidence in possession of the authorities in the case for the murder of Minnie Williams, for which Durrant was never tried, but which developed into an even stronger case than the one upon which he was convicted : illustrated from numerous photographs in the possession of the Police Department of San Francisco
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Durrant, William Henry Theodore, 1871-1898 Peixotto, Edgar D
Subjects: Durrant, William Henry Theodore, 1871-1898 Lamont, Blanche, d. 1895 Williams, Minnie Flora, d. 1895 Trials (Murder) Murder
Publisher: Detroit : Collector Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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being submitted, the court denied the motion atthat time, with leave to defendant to renew the same at a future time,should the defendant so elect.* Counsel for defendant thereupon made certain technical challengesto the panel of the jurors. This matter was heard and proofs taken insupport of the regularity of the panel. The hearing of this challengeconsumed all the session of the 25th and a part of the session of the26th, and on submission to the court, the challenge was disallowed.About noon of July 26th, the actual empanelment of jurors commenced.This proved to be a slow and tedious proceeding. The preliminaryhearings before the coroner and police magistrate had been publishedverbatim in the public journals. The Penal Code of California, likethose of many of our sister states, provides in section 1076: No per-son shall be disqualified as a juror by reason of having formed or ex-pressed an opinion upon the matter or cause to be submitted to such People vs. Fredericks, 106 Cal., 554.
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BLANCHE LAMONT.One of the murdered girls.) THE DURRANT CASE. 3 juror founded upon ^public rumor, statements in public journals or com-mon notoriety; provided, it appear to the court upon his declarationunder oath or otherwise, that he can and will, notwithstanding such anopinion, act impartially and fairly upon the matters to be submittedto him. The Supreme Court of the state of California, in the case ofPeople vs. Wells, 100 Cal., page 227, in interpreting this statute held,that where a juror states that he has formed an opinion as to themerits of the case, he is disqualified from acting as a juror in the absenceof the affirmative showing to the court that his opinion is based uponpublic rumor and that he could, notwithstanding, act fairly. And if hisopinion was based upon a report of the testimony heard or read, it wasmore than public rumor and he should be disqualified. Following thisdecision, considering the wide interest taken in the case and the com-plete publication of all test

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