State v. Hawkins

PRITCHARD, Judge.

On November 15, 1977, a jury found appellant guilty of the commission of three crimes: Robbery in the First Degree; Assault with Intent to do Great Bodily Harm with Malice; and Armed Criminal Action. Upon a finding that appellant was a second offender, the court sentenced him, respectively, to imprisonment in the Department of Corrections, ten years, fifteen years, and three years, to run consecutively, a total of twenty-eight years.

Counsel for appellant moved the court to quash the jury panel on the ground that § 494.031 RSMo 1969, permitting women on juries to be excused…