May v. State

PATTERSON, Judge.

Appellant, Marvin Lamar May, was convicted of first degree robbery on January 17, 1985. Code of Alabama § 13A-8-41 (1975). The State submitted proof of four prior felony convictions and appellant was sentenced as a habitual offender to life imprisonment, without parole, in the state penitentiary. Code of Alabama (1975), § 13A-5-9. Appellant raises one issue on appeal, contending that the State systematically excluded blacks from the jury.1 A detailed account of the facts is, therefore, not necessary for a determination of this cause.

During the empanelling of the jury, the…