Rice v. State

OPINION ON REHEARING

KELTNER, Justice.

Both parties have filed motions for rehearing. As a result we withdraw our previous opinion in this cause, dated August 5,1987, and the following is substituted therefor. Originally Larry Donnell Rice’s appointed counsel filed a brief in which he certified that the appeal was wholly frivolous. However, the brief assigned two “arguable” points of error, 1 which claimed that the trial court erred in overruling Rice’s objection to the State’s peremptory strike against the sole black person on the jury panel and that Rice’s sentence of 99 years in the Texas…