State v. Kelly

Appeal from a conviction for robbery in the first degree, upon an amended information charging a prior felony conviction. Defendant was sentenced by the court to a term of twenty years in the Department of Corrections. Appellant presents only one point on appeal, namely, he contends that the state by peremptory challenges struck all Negroes from the petit jury thereby denying defendant a jury of his peers in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution.

No claim on the sufficiency of the evidence being raised, and no insufficiency appearing, the facts are…