Niven v. State

Appellant was indicted for murder in tlie first degree for the killing of Ray Mead; he was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to twenty-one years in the penitentiary.

For a reversal of the judgment against him, appellant first contends that the court erred in holding that each of six talesmen were qualified jurors, and in requiring him to exercise a peremptory challenge against each of them. As to three of said jurors, the objection is that they testified on their voir dire examination that they had formed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of appellant which would…