WEBB, Justice.
The defendant in this case challenges the selection of the jury for what he contends was a violation of his right to the equal protection of the laws. He says this is so because the prosecuting attorney discriminated against him, a black person, in the exercise of peremptory challenges to prospective jurors.
The question raised by the defendant's assignment of error is treated in Purkett v. Elem, ___ U.S. ___, 115 S.Ct. 1769, 131 L.Ed...
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