Brown v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

MALONEY, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of delivery of a controlled substance. The jury assessed punishment at forty-five years confinement. The Court of Appeals reversed the judgment. Brown v. State, No. 12-92-0351-CR slip op., — S.W.2d - (Tex.App.—Tyler July 29, 1994). We granted the State’s petition for discretionary review to determine whether the trial court abused its discretion in denying appellant’s challenge for cause of a veniremember.

Before the Court of Appeals, appellant claimed the trial court should have granted his challenge…