STATE v. BANKS

No. 23128-KA.

590 So.2d 836 (1991)

STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. William L. BANKS, Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

December 4, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Truett West, Farmerville, for appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, Robert W. Levy, Dist. Atty., R. Wayne Smith, Asst. Dist. Atty., Farmerville, Tommy J. Johnson, Asst. Dist. Atty., Shreveport, for appellee.

Before HIGHTOWER, VICTORY and STEWART, JJ.


VICTORY, Judge.

Defendant, William L. Banks, was convicted by jury of aggravated rape (LSA-R.S. 14:42), and sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence. He appeals his conviction contending that peremptory challenges were improperly used by the state and that his motion to suppress was improperly denied. We affirm.

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