State v. Richetti

The appellant was convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged for killing Frank Hermanson, a policeman, in the so-called Union Station Massacre at Kansas City on June .17, 1933. The record and briefs are long, containing respectively 1163 pages and 281 pages. Appellant makes twelve assignments of error based on more than a hundred citations of authority, which complain: (1) of the trial court’s refusal to quash the indictment because the grand jury returning it had been improperly selected; (2) that there was no substantial .evidence to support the verdict; (3) that the verdict was .the…