State v. Davis

PONDER, Justice.

The defendant was indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to be electrocuted for the murder of one Isaac Charlie Baker. During the course of the trial, eight bills of' exception were taken to the rulings of the trial judge.

Bills of Exception Nos. 1 to 5 inclusive, are based on the same ground. These bills were taken to the ruling of' the trial judge rejecting the defendant’s objection to the qualification of jurors based on the ground that the prospective jurors had read articles in two newspapers and that the information derived from these articles placed the defendant’s…