Whether petitioner's right to due process was violated

QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW WHETHER PETITIONER SCOTT’S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW WAS VIOLATED WHEN HE WAS CONVICTED IN A JURY TRIAL OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER AND SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT POSSIBILITY OF ELIGIBILITY FOR PAROLE WHERE JURORS WERE NOT INSTRUCTED BY THE TRIAL COURT ON THE NECESSARY ELEMENTS OF PROOF OF THIS OFFENSE, AND THE STATE COURTS HELD THAT HIS CHALLENGE TO THE CONVICTION RAISED AN ISSUE OF TRIAL ERROR WHICH WAS WAIVED WHEN NOT URGED ON DIRECT APPEAL i