Atkinson v. State

1. The fact that a juror is closely related to one acting as a partisan for the State in a criminal prosecution affords no ground of challenging such juror for cause.

2. A charge upon the law relating to the relative probative value of positive and negative testimony should not be given when there is nothing in the case on trial to authorize the same. Where the evidence in behalf of the State consists of the testimony of a witness or witnesses who swear positively to the *412commission of the crime, and the evidence in.behalf of the accused consists of testimony tending to show an alibi, and to…