A Texas district court convicts a man of capital murder and sentences him to death by lethal injection. To which of the following courts would an appeal initially be taken?

a) Texas Court of Appeals
b) Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
c) Texas Supreme Court
d) U.S. Supreme Court
e) Justice of the Peace Court


Answer: B

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