State v. May
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Buchanan Criminal Court. — Hon. Benj. J. Casteel, Judge. A venire of forty-seven jurors should have been qualified by the court before requiring defendant to announce his challenges.
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Appeal from Buchanan Criminal Court. — Hon. Benj. J. Casteel, Judge. A venire of forty-seven jurors should have been qualified by the court before requiring defendant to announce his challenges. Revised Statutes 1899, section 2621, and sections following, read with section 2619, require this number in cities having a population of over one hundred thousand inhabitants, when the punishment may be death, and the court will take judicial notice that the population of the city of St. Joseph, in which the trial was had, exceeded that number. State v. Davis, 66 Mo. 684; State v. McOarron, 51 Mo.…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, P. J.
— On a former occasion, at the present term of this court, an opinion was delivered which affirmed the judgment of the trial court, and this because the bill of exceptions was not properly authenticated, and so we could not examine the errors alleged to have occurred during the progress of the trial. Since then, however, such action of the trial court has been taken that the record has been so amended nunc pro tunc, as properly to authenticate the bill, and so we proceed to look into its now validated contents, and in connection therewith, such portions of the record proper as are pertinent…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- State v. HolmeSupreme Court of Missouri · 1873
- State v. WatersSupreme Court of Missouri · 1876
- State v. McCarronSupreme Court of Missouri · 1872
- State v. DavisSupreme Court of Missouri · 1877
- State v. RobertsonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1880
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