Heard v. State

Andree Layton Roaf, Justice.

Appellant Ollis X. Heard was convicted of delivery of a controlled substance, two rocks of crack cocaine, and sentenced as an habitual offender to seventy years imprisonment. On appeal he argues that the trial court erred in 1) denying his motion for directed verdict based on insufficiency of the evidence, 2) ruling that his Batson motion based on the state’s peremptory challenge of one black juror was untimely, 3) failing to require the state to provide racially neutral reasons for the peremptory challenge of the black juror, and 4) failing to grant a mistrial…