State v. Williams

LAKE, Justice.

Approximately two-thirds of the defendant’s brief is directed to his Assignment of Error No. 1, which reads:

“The Court erred in allowing the Solicitor to ask members of the jury panel questions regarding their moral or religious scruples about the death penalty in that such question eliminated all prospective jurors approved [opposed?] to capital punishment and denied defendant the right to be tried by a cross-section of his peers.”

It is not clear from the defendant’s brief whether his attack upon the trial, under this assignment of error, is directed to the trial court’s…