VAN SCOY v. STATE

87-1048.

555 So.2d 195 (1989)

Ex parte State of Alabama. (Re Jay Cee VAN SCOY v. STATE).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

March 3, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don Siegelman, Atty. Gen., and Cecil G. Brendle, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for petitioner.

Bryce U. Graham, Tuscumbia, for respondent.


Prior report: 555 So.2d 195 (Ala.Cr.App. 1988).

MADDOX, Justice.

WRIT QUASHED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

HORNSBY, C.J., and JONES, ALMON, ADAMS and KENNEDY, JJ., concur.

SHORES, HOUSTON and STEAGALL, JJ., dissent.

HOUSTON, Justice (dissenting).

There were four blacks on the venire. The State had eleven strikes. The State struck three of the four blacks. It struck a black with its fifth, sixth...

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