Duggar v. State

The defendant was convicted of a murder in the first degree without a recommendation to mercy. He appealed from the judgment and sentence, assigning as cause for reversal the refusal of the trial judge to set aside the verdict and grant a new trial because of the fact that two of the veniremen who sat on the petit jury had theretofore been convicted of crimes constituting felonies and had not been restored to civil rights.

The record reveals that when the members of the general venire from which the trial jury was to be selected were questioned on their voir dire by the trial judge as to…