State v. Thomas

CLARK, Presiding Judge.

Roscoe Thomas, charged also under the name Sonny Maddox, was tried by a jury and found guilty on two counts of robbery in the first degree and on one count of armed criminal action. As a second offender, Thomas was sentenced by the court to consecutive terms of fifteen years on each robbery conviction and a concurrent term of fifteen years on the conviction for armed criminal action.

As his first point, on which this appeal is resolved, Thomas contends that the jury which convicted him was unrepresentative under the decision in Duren v. Missouri, 439 U.S. 357, 99 S.Ct.…