THOMAS v. STATE

43816.

118 Ga. App. 359 (1968)

163 S.E.2d 850

THOMAS v. THE STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided September 3, 1968.

Rehearing Denied September 18, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank B. Hester, Richard M. Hester, for appellant.

Lewis R. Slaton, Solicitor General, J. Walter LeCraw, J. Robert Sparks, Tony H. Hight, for appellee.


HALL, Judge.

1. The defendant enumerates as error the overruling and denying of his challenge to qualifications of panels, challenge to polls and array and his objections to excusing of jurors opposed to capital punishment. On June 3, 1968, the Supreme Court of the United States held that a death sentence cannot constitutionally be executed if imposed by a jury which by law is given broad discretion to choose between...

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