Sloan v. State

A jury convicted appellant, Pink Wayne Sloan, of burglary of a building and assessed a sentence of seven years’ confinement with the sentence being probated. He appealed. The Tyler Court of Appeals found that the State had improperly utilized its peremptory challenges to exclude from the jury one member of appellant’s race. Sloan v. State, 809 S.W.2d 234 (Tex. App.—Tyler 1988). The State sought discretionary review from this Court and we granted same to determine the correctness of the Court of Appeals’ holding. Today the majority permits an incorrect opinion to stand as precedent by…