Legal Opinion

Landry v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided May 12, 1994No. C14-92-01257-CRPublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

ROBERTSON, Justice.

Appellant pled guilty to the offense of aggravated sexual assault of a child, and the jury assessed punishment at twenty years confinement. Because of alleged jury misconduct during the voir dire phase of the trial, appellant filed a motion for new trial that the trial court denied. On appeal, appellant brings two points of error asserting the trial court erred in failing to find jury misconduct warranting a new trial, and a third point of error complaining of error in the trial court’s instruction to the venirepersons *195to limit their answers to either yes or no. We…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. McDougall v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  2. Thomas v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1985
  3. Sneed v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1984
  4. Salazar v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1978
  5. Jones v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1980

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3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Gonzalez v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)1998
  2. Cuellar v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District1997
  3. Cuellar v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District1997

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