Crawford v. State

Pope, Judge.

William Tyrone Crawford was convicted of pimping. As his sole basis for reversal of his conviction, appellant enumerates as error the trial court’s denial of his motion for a continuance after the selection of the jury on the basis that the prosecution used all of its peremptory challenges to systematically exclude every black juror on the jury list who was “within striking distance” of those challenges.

The transcript in this case indicates that the prosecution used all of its peremptory challenges in removing five of the six black veniremen empaneled for this case. Appellant…