DANIEL S. PEARSON, Judge.
Although we agree with the defendant that, absent a determination that he had exercised his peremptory challenges to exclude blacks from the jury solely because of their race, the trial judge was without authority to discharge the jury pool on the ground that there was not "any black member on the jury," there is absolutely no evidence in this record — and, indeed, not even a suggestion below — to indicate that the trial judge...
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