BIAS. Inclination; bent; prepossession; & preconceived opinion; a predisposition to decide a cause or an issue in a certain way, which does not leave the mind perfectly open to conviction. Maddox v. State, 32 Ga. 587, 79 Am. Dec. 307; Pierson v. State, 18 Tex. App. 558: Hinkle v. State, 94 Ga. 595, 21 S. B. 601.