Turner v. State

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

Two men were killed and two injured by appellant by the use of a pistol during the course of a filling station robbery.

Appellant’s 1st, 9th, and 29th grounds of error relate to the jury selection which he contends was effectuated in violation of the rule of Witherspoon v. State of Illinois et al., 391 U.S. 510, 88 S.Ct. 1770, 20 L.Ed. 2d 776.

In his brief appellant points to ten veniremen. At the hearing on the motion for new trial affidavits of six of the ten were presented to the trial court which show that each of the six…