State v. Hardy

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SWOFFORD, Chief Judge.

The defendant herein prosecuted his appeal to this Court from a conviction of Kidnapping and Rape, which judgment was affirmed by decision of this Court on June 12, 1978 and our mandate issued July 25, 1978. State v. Hardy, 568 S.W.2d 86. In so doing, this Court followed the binding authority of State v. Duren, 556 S.W.2d 11 (Mo. banc 1977) which ruled the Missouri jury selection statutes as they pertained to the exclusion of women from jury service to be constitutional. The Missouri decision in Duren was thereafter held to be unconstitutional and…