State v. Langley

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered by the Circuit Court of St. Francois County, Missouri, convicting appellant of statutory rape, and sentencing him to seven years’ imprisonment in the State penitentiary. ' From the "judgment of that court,- appellant has duly appealed.

In the first assignment of error in his brief, appellant challenges the correctness of the ruling in not sustaining his challenge for cause, jurors John 'Ball and O. M. '.Williams. On their voir dire examination these two jurors stated that they were deputy sheriffs but that they were not active. We think the objection…