Walker v. State

Johnson, Presiding Judge.

Volanta Walker was indicted for rape. He was tried before a jury, which found him guilty of the charge. The trial court imposed a twenty-year sentence, ordering Walker to serve thirteen years in confinement and seven years on probation. Walker appeals, arguing that there is insufficient evidence to support the conviction and that the trial court erred in denying his challenge to the state’s striking of two African-American jurors. The arguments are without merit, and we thus affirm Walker’s conviction.

*7341. On appeal from a criminal conviction, this court views the…