Yarbough v. State

HECHT, Justice.

An evening of fun at the State Fair became a night of horror for two young girls when they were abducted, brutally raped and threatened with death by Anthony Dwayne Yarbough and his companion, Jimmy Lee Grady. 1 Yarbough was convicted on two indictments charging aggravated sexual assault of a child. The jury imposed upon him the maximum sentence allowed by law, life imprisonment and a $10,000 fine for each offense.

Now on appeal Yarbough complains of error in his trial. First, he contends that the State’s exercise of its peremptory challenges to prospective jurors was racially…