State v. Batson

Tbe appellant, a negro, appeals as a poor person-from a conviction of murder in the first degree in tbe Circuit Court of St. Louis County. He was charged by information with shooting and billing Dr. William Edward Poole, and tbe jury fixed tbe punishment at death. No brief has been filed here in his behalf. His motion for new trial in tbe court below complains: that there was no substantial evidence to support the verdict; of the giving and refusal of instructions; and of the overruling of appellant’s challenge to one of the jury panel.

The appellant stood on his demurrer to the State’s…