James Russell, Appellant v. the State of Texas, Appellee

Summary

The Court affirmed the capital murder conviction and death sentence, rejecting all of appellant Russell's asserted errors, including challenges to the corpus delicti, the death‑penalty statute, jury selection under Witherspoon, the speedy‑trial claim, grand‑jury challenges, admissibility of extraneous evidence, the accomplice‑witness instruction, and the special issue on future dangerousness. Justice Clinton dissented, arguing that the Witherspoon doctrine should not apply to Texas's bifurcated capital‑case procedure.