State v. Hardy

TURNAGE, Judge.

Claude M. Hardy, who was convicted of kidnapping, § 559.240, RSMo 1969, and rape, § 559.260, RSMo 1975 Supp., was sentenced to consecutive terms of ten and twenty years.

On this appeal, Hardy attacks the constitutionality of § 494.031, RSMo 1969, and the admission in evidence of a cotton swab. Affirmed.

Hardy first attacks the constitutionality of the jury selection system as applied to Jackson County under Article I, § 22(b), of the Missouri Constitution, and § 494.031, because women are allowed to elect not to serve on the jury. This precise question was decided in State v.…