Mobley v. State

Judge Harold R. Banke.

The initial trial in this case ended in a mistrial. After a second trial, Gurnell Mobley was convicted of manslaughter, two counts of aggravated assault, and criminal trespass. He enumerates four errors, three of which challenge the trial court’s refusal to strike jurors for cause.

This case arose after Mobley’s former girl friend began seeing the victim. After the girl friend spurned his attempts to see her, Mobley broke into her home, got a knife from the kitchen, and walked into a bedroom where she lay sleeping with the victim. Mobley cut the phone cord, hit his former…