Smith v. State

OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for capital murder, where the punishment was assessed at death. See V.T.C.A., Penal Code, § 19.03; Article 37.071, V.A.C.C.P.

On appeal appellant contends that after the selection of five jurors his co-defendant, Hamilton, first agreed to become a State’s witness, and the court erred in overruling his motions for mistrial, continuance and to leave to interrogate the five selected jurors on the law of accomplice witnesses, depriving him of due process and effective assistance of counsel. He also contends a prospective juror,…