State v. Hall

CROW, Judge.

Arnold Hall, Jr., (“defendant”) appeals from his conviction, per jury trial, of the class C felony of attempting to commit rape, §§ 564.011 and 566.030, RSMo 1978, for which he was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment in jail. His sole assignment of error pertains to the following incident that occurred during voir dire examination of the prospective jurors:

“MR. SMITH:1 Would everybody here be able to hear the evidence, judge it like they’d want to be judged by themselves, obey the Court’s instructions and give me and my client and the State and the State’s client a fair trial,…