Cooley v. State

Melvin Mayfield, Chief Judge.

Bradford Lee Cooley was convicted in a jury trial of the crimes of burglary and criminal attempt to commit rape and was sentenced to a term of 13 years on each charge to run consecutively. He argues five points for reversal.

I. Appellant’s first point is that the trial court should have excused for cause a j uror who was employed at the same institution as the prosecuting witness and that he was prejudiced by having to exercise a peremptory challenge to remove that juror.

We find no error. The record shows that the trial judge questioned the juror concerning her…