Whitaker v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

ODOM, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of delivery of methamphetamine. The Court of Appeals •reversed for failure to grant appellant adequate time to examine prospective jurors during the jury selection process. Reversible error was found under authority of De La Rosa v. State, 414 S.W.2d 668 (Tex.Cr.App.1967). We find appellant has shown no harm and the trial court’s limitation of appellant’s jury voir dire to fifty minutes was not unreasonable.

In De La Rosa, supra, the record reflected that some of the prospective jurors whom the defendant…