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OLIVER v. STATE

5 Div. 165.

526 So.2d 892 (1987)

Robert Lewis OLIVER v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

On Return to Remand May 10, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd L. Likins, Jr., Opelika, for appellant.

Don Siegelman, Atty. Gen., and Martha Gail Ingram, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

BOWEN, Presiding Judge.

Robert Lewis Oliver was convicted for escape in the first degree and was sentenced to life imprisonment as a habitual offender.

After a jury had been struck, defense counsel objected because the district attorney used his first nine strikes to remove six black persons from the venire. This left only one black venireperson. Defense counsel alleged the automatic and systematic exclusion of blacks...

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