State v. Belton

EXUM, Justice.

This appeal raises questions involving (1) the propriety of joining defendants for trial; (2) the sufficiency of the evidence to show aiding and abetting; (3) the admissibility of evidence of and instructions on flight; (4) whether the state’s peremptory challenges of certain black jurors unconstitutionally deprived defendants of a representative jury; (5) whether defendants’ rights under the constitutional prohibition against double jeopardy were violated; (6) whether a jury instruction in the disjunctive violated defendants’ rights to a unanimous verdict; and (7) whether there…