ROBERTSON v. COM.

Record No. 0990-92-2.

445 S.E.2d 713 (1994)

Alvin Presley ROBERTSON v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Court of Appeals of Virginia.

July 5, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Thorsen, Richmond (Thorsen, Page & Marchant, on brief), for appellant.

Richard B. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Stephen D. Rosenthal, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Present: BAKER, BARROW and BRAY, JJ.


BRAY, Judge.

Alvin Presley Robertson (defendant) was convicted by a jury for the rape and sodomy of his infant daughter. He complains on appeal that the prosecution unconstitutionally exercised its peremptory challenges to remove black and male venirepersons. For the reasons which follow, we disagree and affirm the convictions.

Because the assigned error relates solely to procedural aspects of the proceeding below, we recite only those facts pertinent to that...

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