Wolfe v. State

Being convinced that my associates are correct in saying that the court committed error in refusing to sustain» appellant’s challenge for cause to the juror Archer, I am unable to agree that such an error was harmless and that the case should be affirmed. The result of the court’s ruling in this case was that appellant was denied his statutory right to ten peremptory challenges. By the same process, the court could have overruled perfectly legal objections to two, and even ten, jurors and thereby to have forced appellant to exercise his ten challenges on men who were not qualified jurors at…