Sims v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

Appellant was convicted of the offense of possession of cocaine with intent to deliver, and his punishment assessed by the jury at seven years in the penitentiary. The Tex-arkana Court of Appeals affirmed his conviction in a published, but as yet unreported opinion. Sims v. State, 768 S.W.2d 863 (Tex.App.Texarkana, 1989).

Appellant contended on appeal, inter alia, that the trial court erred, having found the State exercised one of its peremptory challenges with purposeful discrimination in violation of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106…