Patterson v. State

GUILLOT, Justice.

This is an appeal from a case in which appellant pled not guilty by reason of insanity to the offense of murder. Appellant was convicted by a jury and sentenced to 99 years in the Texas Department of Corrections. We affirm.

Appellant, in her first ground of error, alleges that the trial court erred in restricting her voir dire of the jury panel, thus interfering with the right to exercise peremptory strikes. On the authority of Granviel v. State, 552 S.W.2d 107 (Tex.Cr. App.1976), cert. denied, 431 U.S. 933, 97 S.Ct. 2642, 53 L.Ed.2d 250 (1977), the trial court granted the…