State v. Jackson

EDWIN H. SMITH, Judge.

Derek L. Jackson appeals from the judgment of the Circuit Court of Jackson County denying, inter alia, his motion for a new trial. In his sole point on appeal, he claims that the trial court erred in not granting him a new trial because one was warranted based on the trial court’s failure to sustain his Batson 1 objection to the State’s use of a peremptory strike to strike venireperson Patricia Brown-Dixon, an African-American, in that the strike was racially motivated and the State’s reason given for the strike was pre-textual.

We affirm.'

Facts

The sufficiency of the…