State v. Wilhite

PUDLOWSKI, Judge.

Appellant, Jerome Wilhite, was tried before a jury and convicted of one count of murder in the second degree, one count of assault in the first degree, and two counts of armed criminal action, and was sentenced to life imprisonment plus forty-five years.

Appellant raises four points for reversal. First, appellant claims that the trial court abused its discretion in admitting photographs of the murder victim. Second, appellant alleges that the trial court clearly erred in denying his motion to quash the jury panel because the prosecutor exercised the state’s peremptory strikes…