JOHN B. ROBBINS, Judge.
Appellant Jerry Hawkins was accused of four counts of rape against his niece. A jury in Hempstead County rendered guilty verdicts, and Hawkins was sentenced to forty years for each count. He appeals the convictions, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence and challenging the trial court's rejection of his Batson challenge to the State's strikes of jurors. We affirm.
We first consider the sufficiency of the evidence, as we...
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