State v. Clark

CRIST, Presiding Judge.

Appeal from a jury conviction for murder in the second degree, for which defendant received a life sentence. We affirm.

On March 1, 1982, defendant and a compatriot broke into the St. Lóuis home of murder victim and his wife. Victim resisted, but was badly beaten, stabbed and finally subdued and “hog-tied.” When defendant and his companion left, several items were missing. Victim died later that evening.

Defendant alleges two errors below, both relating to the selection of his trial jury. He first claims it was error for the court to refuse to strike, for cause, a…