State v. Harlin

RENDLEN, Judge.

Defendant, convicted of robbery first degree (§ 560.135, RSMo Supp. 1975) and sentenced to twenty years of imprisonment, appealed to the Missouri Court of Appeals, Kansas City district. The cause was transferred here prior to opinion as defendant raised issues of constitutional construction falling within the exclusive appellate jurisdiction of this court under Mo.Const. Art. V, § 3, as amended 1976.

For his sole contention defendant charges as error the trial court’s failure to quash the jury panel because Missouri’s jury selection process, prescribed by Mo.Const. Art. I, §…