Meyer v. Commonwealth

EDWARD P. HILL, Jr., Judge.

The appellants, August Robert Meyer and Julius Mathis, on their separate but consolidated appeals seek to reverse their convictions for the wilful murder of Ralph Ronald Wright. Appellant Meyer was given the death penalty, while appellant Mathis received a life sentence.

We first discuss Meyer’s appeal. He presents ten questions in his table of contents and authorities. We shall identify them as we go along.

First Meyer says his conviction cannot stand because the trial court committed prejudicial error by excluding prospective jurors for cause simply because they…