State v. Lee

BRANCH, Justice.

Defendant assigns as error the rulings of the trial judge during the' selection of the jury.

We first consider the denial of defendant’s challenge for cause of the juror Frances Norvell. This ruling was made after defendant had exhausted all of his peremptory challenges.

The voir dire examination of prospective juror Norvell disclosed that her husband was a police officer employed by the City of Wilson. He had been a police officer for a period of ten or eleven years and she had been married to him during that entire period. Mrs. Norvell knew most of the Wilson police officers…