SCRUGGS v. STATE

No. 1998-KA-01344-COA.

756 So.2d 817 (2000)

Robert SCRUGGS a/k/a Robert Samuel Scruggs a/k/a `Tac Hammer', Appellant, v. STATE of Mississippi, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

February 1, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. White, Attorney for Appellant.

Office of the Attorney General by Scott Stuart, Attorney for Appellee.

BEFORE SOUTHWICK, P.J., DIAZ, AND PAYNE, JJ.


SOUTHWICK, P.J., for the Court:

¶ 1. Robert Scruggs was found guilty by an Alcorn County Circuit Court jury of possession of cocaine with intent to sell. On appeal Scruggs argues that peremptory challenges were used against certain jurors for racial reasons, that evidence of a prior sale of cocaine was improperly admitted, that his offered jury instruction on the elements of the crime should have been substituted for the State's, and that a mistrial should have...

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