Grant v. State

OPINION

DUNN, Justice.

A jury found appellant guilty of the offense of murder and assessed the maximum punishment of lifetime confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections and a $10,000 fine. We affirm.

Appellant asserts in his first ground of error that the trial court erroneously excused venire person Smith for cause over appellant’s objection, and in effect, gave the state an additional peremptory challenge. He alleges that prejudice was shown because the state had exercised all its peremptory challenges on other members of the venire. See Payton v. State, 572 S.W.2d 677…