Walker v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
1Opinion of the Court
BOWEN, Presiding Judge.
Willie Walker was convicted of robbery in the first degree and received a sentence of life without parole as a habitual offender.
I
At the hearing on the motion for new trial, the trial judge properly refused to allow defense counsel to ask the following question of the four jurors who had been subpoenaed for that hearing:. “In your opinion, did the trial judge express his opinion by acts or action as to the guilt of the defendant in the trial?”
“A juror may not testify, either in impeachment or in support of his verdict, as to what effect a matter had upon his mind as…
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