Stiles v. State

OPINION

CUMMINGS, Justice.

Appellant Michael Thomas Stiles was convicted by a jury on one count of first degree injury to a child and was sentenced by the same jury to fifty years of confinement in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 22.04 (Vernon 1994). Stiles raises fifteen points on appeal. In point one he contends the State violated Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), by striking three members of the venire panel solely because of their race. In points two through five he argues the trial court…