State v. Thompson

SOMERVILLE, Judge.

A jury found defendant guilty of robbery, first degree, (Section 560.120, RSMo 1969) and his punishment was fixed at seven years confinement in the Missouri Department of Corrections.

On appeal defendant claims that he is entitled to a new trial solely by reason of the trial judge’s refusal to honor his request to excuse venireman Howard H. Moore for cause, thereby forcing him to expend one of his peremptory challenges to remove said juror.

This state has steadfastly hewed to the proposition that an accused in a criminal case must be afforded a full panel of qualififed jurors…