Rodriguez v. State

OPINION

RICKHOFF, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of murder and sentenced to forty years imprisonment. Appellant argues that the trial court erred by (1) overruling his motion to suppress; (2) refusing to allow literacy testing of Venireman #28; (3) finding that the State had overcome appellant’s Batson challenge; (4) refusing to allow testing of the qualifications of the State’s character witnesses; and (5) admitting the testimony of the State’s character witnesses regarding their opinions of appellant’s reputation. We affirm.

SUMMARY OF FACTS

Appellant was convicted of murder in the stabbing…