Grider v. State

OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This appeal arises out of a conviction for murder where the punishment was assessed at death.

The trial occurred in Dallas County after a change of venue from McLennan County.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged, but we are met at the outset with the most serious question in the case. The appellant contends that his constitutional rights were violated by the trial court’s improper exclusion of prospective jurors who had expressed conscientious or religious scruples against the infliction of the death penalty. Reliance is had upon Witherspoon v.…