Young v. State

Young v. State1 held that a defendant was not required to request the trial judge to make his findings upon a Batson2 motion based on comparisons of venirepersons in order to have the same evidence considered on a direct appeal raising the issue of the prosecutor’s peremptory challenges. Young, 826 S.W.2d at 145-46.

In order to reach this decision, the court abandoned the now famous footnote 6A in Tompkins v. State, 774 S.W.2d 195, 202 (Tex.Crim.App.1987), aff'd, 490 U.S. 754, 109 S.Ct. 2180, 104 L.Ed.2d 834 (1989), and held that the footnote was not to be read as holding that a “comparison…