STATE v. WATSON

No. KCD 29669.

595 S.W.2d 754 (1980)

STATE of Missouri, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Jerry WATSON, Defendant-Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.

March 3, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ross Eshelman, Poague, Brock, Wall & Eshelman, Clinton, for appellant.

John Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., Kathryn Marie Krause, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.

Before WASSERSTROM, C. J., DIXON, PRITCHARD, SWOFFORD, SOMERVILLE and TURNAGE, JJ., and ROBERT R. WELBORN, Special Judge.


TURNAGE, Judge.

Jerry Watson was convicted of the statutory rape of his 15-year old stepdaughter and the jury assessed punishment at imprisonment for 10 years. The dispositive issue raised on this appeal is the refusal of the trial court to excuse two venirepersons on Watson's challenge for cause. Reversed and remanded.

This case was argued and submitted to a panel of this court and an opinion was adopted. That opinion was later withdrawn and this case was...

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