Hill v. State

OPINION ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

OVARD, Justice.

The State’s motion for rehearing is denied. Our opinion of July 31, 1989 is withdrawn and this opinion issued in lieu thereof.

A jury convicted Michael Lee Hill of aggravated robbery and assessed punishment at sixty years’ confinement. In his sole point of error, Hill contends that the trial court erred in overruling his objection to the State’s use of a peremptory challenge. Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986). Hill argues that the State improperly struck a venire-member based on racial grounds, thereby violating…