O'Steen v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted for murder in the first degree and convicted of manslaughter, and sentence of five years imprisonment in the state penitentiary imposed. The case is brought before us on writ of error taken to this judgment of conviction.

Only two questions are presented by the assignments of error.

The first question is based upon the refusal of the court to permit counsel for plaintiff in error to propound to the talesmen upon their voire dire examination the following question: “Gentlemen, if the defendant should take the witness stand in this case and testify in his own…