State v. Speights

Littlejohn, Justice:

The defendant David Speights was tried upon an indictment charging him with the murder of his brother-in-law, Laverne “Pete” Graham. He has appealed from his conviction by a jury of the offense as charged and his subsequent sentence to death by electrocution.

The primary thrust of Speight’s contentions is directed upon a number of constitutional grounds. He also asserts that the trial court erred in disqualifying a member of the jury panel who expressed on voir dire her opposition to capital punishment, that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence a confession made…