Peters v. State

OPINION

BUSSEY, Judge:

Charles Oscar Peters was convicted of Murder in the First Degree and sentenced to life imprisonment. He raises a single issue on appeal: Whether the fact that one juror had three relatives who worked for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, only one of which defense counsel was apprised during voir dire, is a sufficient basis to reverse the judgment and sentence?

During voir dire of the jury, one venireman, Evelyn Hadley, volunteered the fact that she had a daughter, Susie Rust, who worked for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. On further questioning, she…