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- Title: Rodolfo Baiza Hernandez V. State Texas (10/24/90)
- Author : Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
- Release Date : January 24, 1990
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 70 KB
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This is an appeal from a conviction for capital murder, specifically murder in the course of committing or attempting to commit robbery. See V.T.C.A., Penal Code § 19.03 (a)(2). Appellant was sentenced to death. He brings five points of error on appeal, complaining that the trial court erred in admitting penalty-stage testimony from a psychiatrist concerning the results of appellant's pre-trial competency exam; that the trial court should have instructed the jury to disregard an alleged reference to extraneous offenses; that another reference to an extraneous offense during the penalty phase called for a mistrial; that the trial court should have stated its reasons on the record for allegedly allowing the jury to view appellant in chains; and finally that a mistrial should have been granted when several jurors were in position to see appellant in chains on several occasions outside the courtroom. After due consideration of appellant's claims, we will affirm the judgment of the trial court.