State v. Payne

RENDLEN, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. It is that sentence which brings the cause within exclusive appellate jurisdiction of this Court. Art. Y, § 3, Mo.Const.

For his assignments of error defendant asserts: (1) discriminatory underrepresentation of blacks in the St. Louis City grand jury selection process; (2) similar discriminatory underrepresentation of women and blacks as grand jury foremen; (3) improper failure of the trial court to excuse for cause a venire woman who expressed prejudicial attitudes toward crimes involving…