State v. Childs

The record contains 360 exceptions and 42 assignments of error. Many of the exceptions and assignments of error present the same question for decision, e. g., many rulings of the judge granting the State’s peremptory challenge for cause of a pros pective juror on the voir dire because the prospective juror stated in reply to questions by the State that he had conscientious scruples against the infliction of the death penalty by the State, or that by reason of such conscientious scruples and beliefs he could not render a verdict of guilty where a death sentence is mandatory. Many of the…