State v. Wells

The appellant was convicted of robbing a bank and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary. He relies upon two bills of exception.

The first bill has reference to the examination of the prospective jurors on their voir dire. Article 358 of the Code of Criminal Procedure provides that the jurors shall be tendered first to the prosecution, and, if accepted, then to the defense; and that, after a juror has been accepted by both sides, neither side has the right to challenge him peremptorily, but that it shall be within the discretion of the judge, and not subject to review, to allow either…