State v. Butts

Appellant was convicted in the Jackson County Circuit Court of murder in the first degree and the death sentence was imposed. An appeal was duly taken.

A number of points were preserved for our review. The question of whether a confession of the defendant, used against him at the trial, was voluntarily made, and the question of the qualification of a juror who was challenged for cause by appellant on the ground that the juror was at the time of the trial a police officer of Kansas City, Missouri, are the two most important points.

Appellant was charged with having murdered Mary Margaret…