State v. Stephens
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twelfth Judicial District •Court, Parish of yernon; John Bachman Lee, Judge. W. T. Stephens was convicted of murder, and appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMonroe, J.
The defendant was convicted of murder, without capital punishment, and has appealed from a sentence of imprisonment at hard labor for life.
1. His counsel excepted to the ruling of the trial court sustaining the district attorney in challenging, for cause, certain jurors, who stated, upon voir dire, “that they were not opposed to capital punishment, but would not inflict it on circumstantial evidence alone”; the ground upon which the exception rests being that the challenge assumed that the state had only circumstantial evidence, “and that a juror could not be challenged because he was opposed…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- State v. RobinsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1900
- State v. VickersSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1895
3Cited by9 opinions
- State v. TaylorSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1973
- State v. CorneilleSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1923
- State v. GarnerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1914
- State v. SillsWashington Supreme Court · 1920
- State v. RabySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1971
4 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.