Chambers v. State

OPINION FOLLOWING REMAND FOR RETROSPECTIVE BATSON HEARING

TEAGUE, Judge.

A jury found Ronald Curtis Chambers, henceforth appellant, guilty of capital murder and the jury answered the submitted special issues in the affirmative. The trial judge thereafter assessed his penalty at death.

On direct appeal, see Chambers v. State, 742 S.W.2d 695 (Tex.Cr.App.1988), although appellant presented thirteen points of error, this Court limited its discussion to the issues that concerned this pre-Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), case. Batson is to be applied to similarly…