John Dale Henson v. Donald Wyrick, Warden, Missouri State Penitentiary

LAY, Chief Judge.

John Dale Henson is a Missouri state prisoner serving a sentence of 35 years for conviction, in Circuit Court of Butler County, Missouri, of second-degree murder. Henson claimed the homicide was in self defense or an accident. His petition for a writ of habeas corpus contends, among other things, that the jury selection process used in his trial violated the due process and equal protection clauses of the fourteenth amendment.

Petitioner contends the sheriff or his deputies selected bystander jurors for his trial upon order of the court pursuant to Mo. Rev.Stat. § 494.250(2).…