State v. Sansone
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — George L. Walls, Esq., Special Judge. (1) The method employed in the Selection of twenty-five additional jurors to complete the .panel of forty-seven was contrary to act approved April 1, 1891, and illegal, and their verdict should be set aside and the case remanded for a new trial.
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Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — George L. Walls, Esq., Special Judge. (1) The method employed in the Selection of twenty-five additional jurors to complete the .panel of forty-seven was contrary to act approved April 1, 1891, and illegal, and their verdict should be set aside and the case remanded for a new trial. Acts 1891, p. 173. (2) The court erred in permitting the juror, Martin Gossett, after the jury had been sworn, and during the progress of the trial, to separate from his fellow jurors for the space of one hour, in the charge of an officer not sworn to take charge of such juror…
1Opinion of the Court
GIantt, P. 1.
The defendant was indicted at the January term, 1892, of the criminal court of Jackson county, for the murder of Joseph Marichirina, on the twenty-seventh day of December, 1891. He was duly arraigned and his plea of “not guilty” entered. He was tried at the same term and .convicted of murder in the second degree. A motion for new trial was filed and continued to the April term, and was finally overruled July 19, 1892, and the defendant sentenced to the penitentiary for ninety-nine years.
*7At the time of the sentence the court stayed the execution of the sentence until July 29,…
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