HENSON v. WYRICK

No. 79-1808.

634 F.2d 1080 (1980)

John Dale HENSON, Appellant, v. Donald WYRICK, Warden, Missouri State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided November 12, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cynthia S. Holmes, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant.

John Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., Michael Elbein, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Mo., for appellee.

Before LAY, Chief Judge, STEPHENSON, Circuit Judge, and THOMAS, Senior District Judge.


LAY, Chief Judge.

John Dale Henson is a Missouri state prisoner serving a sentence of 35 years for conviction, in Circuit Court of Butler County, Missouri, of second-degree murder. Henson claimed the homicide was in self defense or an accident. His petition for a writ of habeas corpus contends, among other things, that the jury selection process used in his trial violated the due process and equal protection clauses of the fourteenth amendment.

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