Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The trial court properly exercised its discretion in discharging, prior to the commencement of trial, a sworn juror who had asked to be excused because his father, who was in the hospital and had just been diagnosed as having cancer and a broken hip, was to undergo surgery the following day and there was uncertainty as to whether he would survive the surgery. Although it would have been preferable for the trial
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