SMITH v. STATE

No. 53564.

500 So.2d 973 (1986)

Willie Albert SMITH v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied February 11, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Brantley, Jr., Jackson, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Marvin L. White, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

En Banc.


SULLIVAN, Justice, for the court:

Willie Albert Smith now comes before this Court and files his application for leave to proceed in the trial court pursuant to Mississippi Uniform Post-Conviction Collateral Relief Act, Mississippi Code Annotated, §§ 99-39-1 to 99-39-29 (Supp. 1985). He alleges that the prosecutor intentionally exercised the state's peremptory challenges to exclude black potential jurors on the basis of race and that the state failed to produce...

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