GRIFFIN, Justice, for the Court:
Larry Earl Jackson, a black, was convicted of the July 1984 burglary of an apartment in Gulfport. On the basis of three 1976 convictions, he was sentenced as an habitual offender to serve ten years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
He assigns two errors. The first, that blacks were unjustifiably excluded from the jury through the use of peremptory challenges, is confessed by the State. Four blacks...
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