Franklin v. State

WEIER, Judge.

Movant appeals from the trial court’s denial of an evidentiary hearing on a Rule 27.26 motion. He had been found guilty of first-degree murder after jury trial held in the City of St. Louis and was sentenced to life imprisonment. That conviction was affirmed in State v. Franklin, 482 S.W.2d 420 (Mo.1972).

In his motion, movant set forth as grounds for relief that he was deprived of a jury composed of a true cross section of the community and was thus deprived of an impartial trial, due process and equal protection of the law in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to…