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COVIN v. STATE

A94A1421.

215 Ga. App. 3 (1994)

COVIN v. THE STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided October 20, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. McCall Calhoun, Jr., for appellant.

John R. Parks, District Attorney, Richard E. Nettum, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.

RUFFIN, Judge.

The appellant, Tommy Lee Covin, was convicted of burglary of the Leesburg City Hall. His sole contention on appeal concerns the trial court's denial of his challenge to the State's exercise of its peremptory strikes pursuant to Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (106 S.C. 1712, 90 LE2d 69) (1986).

The State exercised four of six peremptory strikes to exclude black jurors. The prosecutor explained that the...

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