State v. Boyd

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Eenner, J.

The defendant, under sentence of death for murder, is unrepresented by counsel in this Court. We have, therefore, given to the charges of error presented on the face of the record, that close and careful scrutiny which the gravity of- his situation merits.

1. We find a bill of exceptions to the overruling by the judge of a challenge for cause of a juror on the ground of fixed opinion. After «o me statement as to an opinion formed by him from conversations with citizens living in the neighborhood of the occurrence, not profess-*375tag to have been…