Taylor v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Taylor was indicted for murder in the shooting death of an acquaintance, apparently as the result of an altercation between them during his visit to the victim’s premises. Taylor testified that the men grappled and that he was shot once with the victim’s pistol; that he cut the victim several times with his knife, and that the latter was then fatally wounded by a shot in the forehead. The verdict of *661voluntary manslaughter is attacked on two special grounds only.

1. It developed while striking the jury that a potential juror was the interim city manager of Thomasville,…