Henry v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

MILLER, Judge.

Appellant pled “not guilty” to the charge of involuntary manslaughter. A jury found him guilty and assessed punishment at ten years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections and a $5,000.00 fine. On appeal to the Fourteenth Court of Appeals, appellant’s conviction was affirmed in an unpublished opinion. Henry v. State, No. B14-84-592CR, delivered October 10, 1985. We granted appellant’s petition for discretionary review to consider whether the State’s use of its peremptory strikes violated appellant’s right to…