Flannagin v. State

CATES, Judge.

Murder, first degree: sentence, electrocution.

I

We have examined the applicability of Boulden v. Holman, 394 U.S. 478, 89 S.Ct. 1138, 22 L.Ed.2d 433, and conclude that the five veniremen challenged by the State exhibited an irrevocable commitment to vote against capital punishment. There is no error in the ruling below.

II

Over objection the victim’s pocketknife and bloody shirt were allowed in evidence.

On appeal error is claimed because of irrelevance. If the victim was wearing the shirt when Flannagin shot him, there, in all probability, would have been a hole in the shirt.…