MATHIS v. STATE

No. 53463.

576 S.W.2d 835 (1979)

Willie Earl MATHIS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

January 10, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Art Brender, Fort Worth (Court-appointed), for appellant.

Tim Curry, Dist. Atty., Marvin L. Collins and Howard A. Borg, Asst. Dist. Attys., Fort Worth, for the State.

Before the court en banc.


OPINION

DALLY, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of murder; the punishment is imprisonment for life.

In two grounds of error the appellant complains that his voir dire examination of the jury was restricted to the extent that he could not intelligently exercise his right to make peremptory challenges. He argues that the court erred in not permitting him to ascertain the prospective juror's attitudes and feelings about assessing...

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