Word: veniremen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Phinney tried to make it clear to "those jurors of the Catholic faith" that there is no inconsistency between church law and New Hampshire law on the matter of killing. Altogether, 70 veniremen were examined; Justice Harold E. Wescott excused 34 for cause; the defense used 17 peremptory challenges, the prosecution seven. From heavily Roman Catholic (60%) Manchester, justice finally settled on a jury which included nine Catholics...