Finch v. State

The appellant, Jonetta Finch, was indicted for theft of property in the first degree, as proscribed by § 13A-8-3, Code of Alabama 1975; more specifically, the theft by deception of $15,000, the property of the City of Roanoke. A jury found Finch guilty, as charged, and she was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment and ordered to pay $86,300 in restitution.

I

Finch, who is black, first contends that the trial court erred in denying her motion to dismiss the selected petit jury on the ground that the prosecution used its peremptory strikes to remove members of her racial group from the jury, in…