Yanez v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

TEAGUE, Judge.

The Eastland Court of Appeals, in a unanimous opinion by Justice Raleigh Brown, ordered the conviction of Santana Yanez, appellant, reversed because the trial court failed to grant the oral motion to shuffle the jury panel that counsel for appellant had made and urged. See Yanez v. State, — S.W.2d — (Tex.App. — Eastland 1983). The record reflects that the motion to shuffle was made immediately after the trial court had “screened” the prospective jurors. We granted the State’s petition for discretionary review to answer the…