State v. Strawther

HOUSER, Commissioner.

Stellman Strawther, Jr., tried by a jury, convicted of robbery in the first degree and sentenced to 8 years’ imprisonment, has appealed.

Appellant’s first point: “The court erred in overruling defendant’s objection to the entire jury panel on the ground that while the defendant is a Negro, there were no Negroes on the jury panel as a result of a practice of systematic exclusion of Negroes from jury panels in Pulaski County, Missouri, for the reason that the exclusion of Negroes from the petit jury which tried this defendant violated this defendant’s rights under the…