Shafer v. State

Citations

• 7 Tex. Ct. App. 239

Syllabus

<p>1. Challenge for Cause. — Conscientious scruples in regard to the infliction of death as a punishment for crime constitute cause for the challenge of a juror in a capital case, even though the juror limit his scruples to cases in which circumstan tial evidence is relied upon for a conviction.</p> <p>2. Burden on Proof. — Upon the issue of guilty or not guilty, the burden of proof never shifts from the State to the defendant, but remains upon the State throughout the trial.</p> <p>3. Confessions, though made in arrest or jail, are evidence against the maker if he made them voluntarily and after being cautioned that they might he used against him.</p>