State v. Anderson

GEORGE F. GUNN, Jr.,

Special Judge.

Defendant challenges the constitutionality of the Missouri talesman statute — § 494.-250, RSMo 1978. Because a determination of the validity of a statute is involved, this court has exclusive jurisdiction of the appeal. Mo.Const. Art. V, § 3.

Defendant’s appeals result from two separate trials. He was first convicted of second degree burglary and stealing. He was subsequently convicted of attempted first degree robbery. The two appeals are consolidated as each raises the identical issue: does a sheriff who under § 494.250 handpicks bystanders to become…