ROUGEAU v. STATE

No. 68868.

651 S.W.2d 739 (1982)

Paul ROUGEAU, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

December 22, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reque D. Bobbitt, Bob C. Hunt, Houston, for appellant.

John B. Holmes, Jr., Dist. Atty., Alvin M. Titus and Ned Morris, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., and Alfred Walker, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.


OPINION

CLINTON, Judge.

Appellant was charged with and was convicted of capital murder of a police officer, alleged to have been committed during a robbery at the Stock Exchange Club in Houston. The death penalty was assessed. Sufficiency of evidence is not challenged.

Appellant contends that certain jurors were improperly excused for cause, in violation of Witherspoon v. Illinois,

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