Commonwealth v. Anderson

The defendant’s bill of exceptions attacks his convictions, after a trial by jury, on two indictments charging armed robbery. The defendant complains of the jury selection procedure and of two evidentiary rulings. Such facts and evidence as are necessary to understand the various contentions which we discuss will be set out therewith.

1. Jury selection. The defendant is black; the two victims are white; two witnesses who identified the defendant are black. One of the witnesses had been shot by a co-defendant (whose case is not before us); the other testified she saw the incident from her…