Reeves v. State

DAVIDSON", Presiding Judge.

Appellant was found guilty of the murder of his wife, his punishment assessed at death.

Several bills of exception were reserved to the action of the court overruling cause for challenge urged by appellant to some of the jurors. All of these jurors were chállenged peremptorily. When the eleventh juror was accepted by appellant he still had one peremptory challenge left. The twelfth juror accepted, stated he had no opinion whatever as to the guilt or innocence of the accused. He was accepted by both parties. So it would seem from this statement by the trial court,…