A judge declared a mistrial Thursday after a jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict in a case against a man accused of beating a woman with a Bible and stealing her purse.
The jury vote was 10-2 in favor of a guilty verdict, officials said. A retrial was scheduled for Dec. 10.
The defendant, Shenandoah Gillespie, 39, was charged with second-degree robbery in the attack on Jan. 22 of last year. He insisted he had been at his mother’s home in St. Louis and watching a playoff football game at the time.
The victim in the case, Elyse McNett, 27, had testified that Gillespie was the man who followed her inside the garage of her loft at 1000 Washington Avenue and beat her with a Bible in a robbery. She suffered a head laceration.
Jurors deliberated for four hours, then told Circuit Judge Joan Burger that they were deadlocked, officials said.
His mother, brother and nephew all testified to the same. But the prosecutor used testimony from a supervisor at KTVI (Channel 2) to show that the game ended an hour before the crime.