Robert Allan May, Appellant v. the State of Texas, Appellee

Summary

The Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas affirmed the capital murder conviction and death sentence of Robert Allan May, holding that the evidence sufficiently corroborated the accomplice testimony, the indictment was adequate, the consent search was valid, and the various evidentiary rulings were proper. The dissenting judges argued that the exclusion of jurors under §12.31(b) violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments and that the death sentence should be vacated in favor of life imprisonment.