Williams v. Commonwealth

DAVIS, Commissioner.

Edward Lenin Williams was found guilty of murdering James Alvin Wood. The penalty was fixed by the jury at death. Six assignments of error are urged in support of reversal: (1) A requested continuance was improperly denied; (2) the prosecuting attorney violated his “covenant in his contract with the jury”; (3) error occurred upon vior-dire examination of prospective jurors within the rule of Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510, 88 S.Ct. 1770, 20 L.Ed.2d 776; (4) defendant was denied due process and equal protection of the law, assured by the U.S. Constitution; (5) the…