State v. Bailey

Ness, Justice:

Appellant Bailey was convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to twenty-five years. We affirm.

Appellant initially challenges the South Carolina statutory scheme for allocating peremptory strikes to prospective jurors in a criminal case. Code § 14-7-1110 (1976) provides in part:

“Any person who shall be arraigned for the crime of murder, manslaughter, burglary, arson, rape, grand larceny, breach of trust when it shall be punishable as for grand larceny, perjury or forgery shall be entitled to peremptory challenges not exceeding ten and the State in such cases shall be entitled to…