JACKSON v. COM.

Record No. 1467-86-2.

380 S.E.2d 1 (1989)

Kenneth Wayne JACKSON v. COMMONWEALTH of Virgina.

Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Rehearing En Banc Granted June 9, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence D. Diehl (Marks, Stokes & Harrison, Hopewell, on brief), for appellant.

H. Elizabeth Shaffer, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Present: BENTON, BAKER and COLE, JJ.


BENTON, Judge.

In this appeal, Kenneth Wayne Jackson contends that the Commonwealth exercised its peremptory challenges to exclude blacks from the circuit court jury and that the trial court erred in overruling his motion to dismiss the jury. For the reasons which follow, we reverse the convictions and remand the case for a new trial.

Jackson was tried by jury and convicted of both armed robbery of a store clerk and use of a firearm in the commission of the...

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