Hayes v. Missouri
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF MISSOURI. The case which makes the Federal question is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
The Revised Statutes of Missouri provide, that, in all capital cases, except in cities having a population of over 100,000 inhabitants, the state shall be allowed eight peremptory challenges to jurors, and, in such cities, shall be allowed fifteen. Rev. Stat. Missouri, 1879, §§ 1900, 1902.
The plaintiff in error, John ITayes, ivas, indicted in the criminal court of St., Louis, a city of over 100,000 inhabitants, by its grand jury, for the crime of murder in shooting and killing one Mueller, in that city, oh the 26th of August, 1881; and was tried in April, 1882, and convicted of murder in the…
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