State v. Hudspeth
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson Criminal Court. — Hon. Samuel Davis, Special Judge. (1) The court erred in permitting the prosecuting attorney on the voir dire examination of a large number of jurors to make inquiries of them touching their competency in a manner unwarranted by law and to defendant’s great prejudice.
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Appeal from Jackson Criminal Court. — Hon. Samuel Davis, Special Judge. (1) The court erred in permitting the prosecuting attorney on the voir dire examination of a large number of jurors to make inquiries of them touching their competency in a manner unwarranted by law and to defendant’s great prejudice. (2) The court erred in not requiring the prosecuting attorney to hand the list of jurors with the State’s challenges to defendant’s counsel in time for defendant to have a just portion of the twenty-four hours allowed him by law, and by reason of which defendant’s counsel had a little less…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
At the June term, 1898, of the criminal court of Jackson county, the defendant was convicted'of murder in the second degree and his punishment fixed at ten years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary, for having theretofore, at said county, shot to death with a double-barrel shotgun, one Joseph W. Kessner. Erom the judgment defendant appealed to this court, where the judgment was reversed and the cause remanded. [State v. Hudspeth, 150 Mo. 12.] The trial was before the Hon. Dorsey W. Shackleford, who was then judge of the Fourteenth judicial circuit, but who resigned before the September term,…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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