Padgett v. Padgett
Decision Date | 10 May 1940 |
Docket Number | No. 28249.,28249. |
Citation | 10 S.E.2d. 127 |
Parties | PADGETT. v. PADGETT. |
Court | Georgia Court of Appeals |
Rehearing Denied July 26, 1940.
Error from City Court of Baxley; Al-vin V. Sellers, Judge.
Action by W. C. Padgett against C. C. Padgett. To review a judgment for plaintiff, the defendant brings error.
Reversed.
Bryan, Middlebrooks & Carter and John A. Dunaway, all of Atlanta, for plaintiff in error.
Wade H. Watson, of Baxley, for defendant in error.
Syllabus Opinion by the Court.
1. (Italics ours.) Code, § 59-705; Atlanta Coach Co. v. Cobb, 178 Ga. 544, 174 S.E. 131. (a) "This is accomplished when the judge, after propounding the questions, directs that any juror answering both or either question in the affirmative shall stand up." (Italics ours.) Sheffield v. Sheffield, 150 Ga. 440, 104 S.E. 213, 214. (b) The above-quoted Code section, properly construed, means that when a party, by timely motion, asks the court to put the jurors on their voir dire, the judge must, do so by propounding to them the two questions set forth in the section, or equivalent questions, but he may propound them to each individual juror, or to the entire panel.
2. In the instant civil cause the defendant, on the call of the case for trial, made a motion that the jurors be put on their voir dire. The motion was overruled; but shortly thereafter, the court stated to the jury: None of the jurors stood up. This ruling of the court was assigned as error, on the ground "that what was done by the court was not the equivalent of putting the jurors on their voir dire but was the equivalent of overruling the motion of movant to put the jurors on their voir dire." The questions which section 59-705 of the Code requires to be propounded to the jurors are: (1) Whether any one of them ...
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