State v. Donahue

PRITCHARD, Judge.

Appellant was convicted by the verdict of a jury of the commission of the crime of robbery in the first degree. The trial began on June 7, 1978. Upon a finding that appellant was a second offender, the court sentenced him to ten years imprisonment in the Division of Corrections.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not questioned. It suffices to say that appellant by use of a handgun robbed the victim, Eula Johnson, of her 1977 Thunderbird automobile.

At the outset of the trial, appellant moved to quash the jury panel upon the grounds that Missouri’s exemption from jury service…