State v. King

The appellant, a negro, was charged by indictment with raping a girl thirteen years old in August, 1935, in the city of St. Louis. He was convicted by a jury and his punishment assessed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for seventy years. His motion for new trial in the circuit court contained twenty-three assignments of error. Such of these as are urged in his brief will be discussed.

The first assignment predicates error on the overruling of appellant’s motion to quash, which charged that in the proceedings leading to the selection of the grand jurors by whom the indictment was returned…