Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama November 25, 1986 (Sashner v. State)

Willie Lee Sashner was convicted for the murder of his wife, Elnora James, and sentenced to life imprisonment. On appeal from that conviction, Sashner argues that the assistant district attorney improperly attempted to strike all blacks from the jury in violation of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. ___,106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986).