Ned v. State

McKAY, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of aggravated robbery and punishment was assessed at twenty years confinement.

Appellant’s first ground of error complains of the overruling of his motion for mistrial or to quash the jury panel because of the discriminatory use of peremptory challenges by the State. Appellant’s counsel moved the trial court (calling it a motion in limine) to instruct the State’s attorney “not to systematically exclude any particular group from the voir dire with their peremptory challenges.” The motion was overruled. After the jury was selected appellant objected to the…