Barnes v. State

OPINION

LEE, Justice.

Appellant was charged with the April 1, 1992, armed robbery of two Union Pacific Railroad employees. Appellant entered a plea of not guilty. The jury convicted appellant, and following his plea of true to two enhancement paragraphs, assessed punishment at sixty years confinement. By three points of error, appellant claims the trial court erred in overruling his objections to the State’s use of its peremptory challenges, and in instructing the jury that it had a duty to determine appellant’s guilt or innocence. We affirm.

In his first two points of error, appellant raises a…