Davis v. State

In this direct criminal appeal, appellant complains that the trial court erred in (1) denying his objections to the state’s peremptory challenges of several jurors because the challenges were impermissibly based on the jurors’ race; and (2) imposing a minimum mandatory sentence of twenty years in prison for robbery with a firearm because he was not charged with discharging a firearm during the commission of that offense. We affirm as to the first claim because appellant failed to preserve it by renewing his objections to the state’s use of the peremptory challenges immediately before the jury…