Mathews v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

CLINTON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of aggravated robbery and sentenced by a jury to twenty years in the Texas Department of Corrections. The court of appeals affirmed his conviction in an unreported opinion. Mathews v. Texas, No. 01-85-0974-CR, 1987 WL 7654 (Tex.App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 1987).

We granted appellant’s petition for discretionary review to determine whether the court of appeals erred in failing to abate the appeal and remand for a Batson hearing. Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986).…