Lightner v. State

OPINION

CORNELIUS, Chief Justice.

Roger Lightner appeals his conviction for burglary of a vehicle. He was tried before a jury and assessed punishment of thirty-five years’ imprisonment.

Lightner brings two points of error in which he argues that the trial court erred in allowing the State to use its peremptory challenges to strike members of minorities from the jury panel and in refusing to give his requested jury charge on the defense of necessity.

The evidence showed that Lightner was arrested by a Dallas Police Department detective who was working off duty as a guard at an office building. The…