Baxley v. State

—The plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, on an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree, was convicted of and sentenced for manslaughter in the Circuit Court of Marion County, the case being tried there on change of venue from Sumter County, and by writ of error seeks a review of such judgment here.

At the trial during the selection of the jury a tales-man on his voire dire answered to a question propounded to him touching his qualification as a juror, as follows: “That he would render an impartial verdict after he had heard the evidence, the argument…