Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama September 29, 1995, CR-94-889 (Grimsley v. State)

The appellant, Olin Grimsley, was convicted of robbery in the first degree, a violation of § 13A-8-41, Code of Alabama 1975. He was sentenced to life in the penitentiary. The appellant contends that the trial court erred in ruling that he had failed to make a prima facie showing that the state used its peremptory strikes to remove blacks from the jury venire in violation of Batson v.