WAYMOND M. BROWN, Judge.
A Sebastian County jury found appellant, Jermiko Johnson, guilty of second-degree sexual assault. Johnson was sentenced to twenty-four years in the Arkansas Department of Correction and fined $15,000. He argues on appeal that the trial court erred in denying his Batson challenge to the State's use of a peremptory strike to exclude potential juror Gatling, an African-American woman. We affirm.
Johnson contends that the State...
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