Opinion
No. WD 58609
May 7, 2001 Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to Supreme Court Denied July 3, 2001. Application for Transfer Denied August 21, 2001.
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI, THE HONORABLE JAY A. DAUGHERTY, JUDGE.
Andrew A. Schroeder, Appellate Defender, Kansas City, MO, Attorney for Appellant.
Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, Attorney General, Adriane D. Crouse, Assistant Attorney General, Jefferson City, MO, Attorneys for Respondent.
Before: Smith, P.J., and Smart and Howard, JJ.
ORDER
A jury convicted appellant Michael A. Ralls of one count each of burglary in the second degree, § 569.170 RSMo 1994, and stealing, § 570.030. The trial court subsequently sentenced him as a prior and persistent offender, §§ 558.016 and 557.036, to six years imprisonment for burglary and one year confinement in the Jackson County Jail for stealing. After the trial court denied his motion for a new trial, Mr. Ralls timely appealed his conviction. In his sole point on appeal, he alleges that the trial court clearly erred in overruling his Batson objections to the State's use of its peremptory strikes to remove two venirepersons from the jury panel.
Affirmed. Rule 30.25(b).