Walker v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of voluntary manslaughter; the punishment is imprisonment for 20 years and a fine of $5,000.

The appellant complains that a venireman who was summoned for jury duty was improperly excused. The appellant relies on a bill of exception which he perfected to demonstrate the error.

One Urbine Lange was summoned for jury duty on the venire from which the appellant was required to select jurors for his trial. Lange returned the “Juror’s Reply Form” requesting that he be excused from jury duty for the reason “I was convicted…