Pumphrey v. State

Plaintiff in error was convicted of committing murder while in tbe perpetration of a robbery, and, from a sen*638tence of imprisonment in the state penitentiary for life, lias appealed to this court.

1. The first, error argued is that the court should not have overruled defendant’s' challenges for cause to various veniremen because thereby he was compelled to exhaust his peremptory challenges. The bill of exceptions discloses the challenges and the court’s rulings, but none of those veniremen were sworn or acted as jurors in the case. Whéther they were eventually excluded by ' the court on its own…