State v. Hamm

DOWD, Presiding Judge.

Defendant, Samuel Hamm, appeals his jury conviction of murder in the first degree, felony murder. § 565.003 RSMo.1978. The defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The defendant contends that the trial court committed error by: (1) failing to strike a prospective juror for cause sua sponte and (2) denying his motion for judgment of acquittal at the close of the state’s case on the grounds of insufficiency of the evidence.

At trial, Mr. Schneider testified that on August 24,1984 he heard someone upstairs in his apartment, and so he called the police. Officer Dillow…