Griffin v. State

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder without malice; the punishment, five (5) years.

Appellant’s first seven grounds of error relate to jury selection. Forty prospective jurors appeared when the case was called. Two were excused (about which there is no question). None of the others was successfully challenged for cause. When the appellant completed his examination of venireman No. 22, the prosecutor announced that he would exercise no peremptory challenges to the first 22, but would exercise peremptory challenges to the next ten on the list. The court at this juncture terminated the…