State v. Ward

MOORE, Justice.

The record discloses that in the selection of the jury “the solicitor was allowed to challenge for cause 18 prospective jurors after said 18 jurors stated on voir dire that he or she would not under any circumstances, regardless of the evidence, consider joining in a verdict the result of which the death penalty would be imposed, but would automatically vote against such a verdict regardless of the evidence and would not even consider such a verdict in his or her deliberation of the case.” Defendant’s first assignment of error is that the exercise of these 18 challenges by the…