Riley v. State

COURTNEY HUDSON HENRY, Judge.

|,A jury in Miller County found appellant Kenneth Riley guilty of aggravated robbery, for which he was sentenced as an habitual offender to a term of eighty years in prison. For reversal, appellant contends that the trial court erred in overruling his Batson objection to the prosecutor’s use of a peremptory strike to exclude an African-American woman from the jury. He also argues that the State did not present sufficient evidence to corroborate the testimony of the two accomplices. We affirm. 1

At 12:19 a.m. on October 1, 2007, George Riley, who is appellant’s…