Holland v. State

Cartee, J.:

Plaintiff in error was indicted at the spring term,. 1896, Circuit Court of Polk county, for the murder of Joel W. Walker, and tried and convicted with recommendation of mercy, with sentence to life imprisonment, at the fall term, 1896, from which sentence this-writ of error was sued out.

■ I. The court below sustained the State’s challenges-for cause to four jurors who each answered on noir dire that no matter how conclusive the evidence might be, if it was in whole or in part circumstantial, they would not convict of a capital offense upon it. The case depending principally upon…