Jones v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

HAWKINS, Judge.

Appellant contends that our holding as to the court’s action relative to the juror King cannot be reconciled with Collins v. State, 84 Tex. Crim. Rep. 228, 206 S. W. 688; Jester v. State, 100 Tex. Crim. Rep. 409, 273 S. W. 570, and Quinn v. State, 51 Tex. Crim. Rep. 155, 101 S. W. 248. In Collins’ case it is stated that the juror who had an opinion could have reached it in no other way than by conversation with the witness. The same is true in Quinn’s case. In Jester’s case the jurors had formed opinions from personal examination of physical evidence…