Butler v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

A jury convicted appellant, on his not guilty plea, of the offense of aggravated robbery. Punishment was assessed at fifteen years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections1. We granted review to consider whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in excusing .a qualified venireperson over appellant’s objection. We will affirm.

As sufficiency of the evidence is not in issue, only a brief recitation of the facts is necessary. In Dallas, on March 13, 1989, a robbery took place at…