Woods v. State

OPINION

ADELE HEDGES, Chief Justice.

A jury found appellant, Kenneth Deshun Woods, guilty of aggravated kidnapping and assessed punishment at 40 years in prison. On appeal, he challenges (1) the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence to support the jury’s finding that he did not voluntarily release the complainant in a safe place, (2) the trial court’s exclusion of polygraph evidence and evidence of the complainant’s sexual history, and (3) the trial court’s denial of his Batson challenge. We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

On the night of May 26, 2006, and into the early morning hours of May 27,…