Jordan v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANTS PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

MALONEY, Judge.

A jury convicted appellant of the offense of aggravated robbery and assessed punishment of life imprisonment. The Court of Appeals affirmed. Jordan v. State, 877 S.W.2d 902 (Tex.App.—Ft. Worth 1994). We granted appellant’s petition for discretionary review to address the admissibility of expert testimony on the issue of eyewitness identification under Texas Rule of Criminal Evidence 702.1

Roy Briggs was working at a Seven-Eleven in Mansfield, Texas at about 2:30 a.m. on January 23,1991, when two men entered the store. One of…