State v. Lockett

KAROHL, Judge.

The sole remaining issue in defendant’s direct appeal consists of a claim that the trial court erred in ruling defendant did not make a prima facie case of racial discrimination in the state’s use of peremptory challenges during the trial. AH other matters on direct appeal were previously decided by an opinion of this court published on March 25, 1986, which affirmed defendant’s conviction on the charge of receiving stolen property and sentence of fifteen years imprisonment. We subsequently denied a motion for rehearing or transfer to the Supreme Court of Missouri.

On June 17,…