Prowell v. State

ANDREE LAYTON Roaf, Justice.

Appellant Marco Kodell Prowell appeals his conviction of capital murder and aggravated robbery and sentence of life imprisonment without parole. Prowell challenges the sufficiency of the evidence and the trial court’s failure to suppress identification testimony and to grant his objection to the state’s peremptory strikes based on Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986). We affirm.

At approximately 8:00 p.m. on March 25, 1994, two men entered Andre’s Cuisine in the Hillcrest area of Little Rock. One of the men approached Andre Simon, the owner of the restaurant, and…