State v. Turner

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Defendant Wayne Turner, charged with murder, was convicted and sentenced to death. He has appealed, relying for reversal on a bill of exception taken to the overruling of his motion for a mistrial.1

The bill of exception, signed by the trial judge, discloses that the motion for a mistrial was made under the following cir*556cumstances: The State called as witnesses the chief criminal deputy sheriff and another deputy sheriff. One of these witnesses testified as to the free and voluntary nature of the defendant’s confession and to certain circumstances surrounding the giving of…