Reese v. State

ORDER

The jury convicted Appellant of murdering Shug Walker, Jr., and assessed his punishment at ninety-nine years in prison and a $10,000 fine. One of his complaints is that the court erroneously excluded the testimony and affidavit of Wilda Grant-ham, a juror, at the hearing on the motion for a new trial. The essence of Grant-ham’s testimony, which is preserved in a bill of exception, was that another juror mentioned the parole law during deliberations on punishment, that the jury discussed the parole law, and that she, Grant-ham, relied on the other juror’s comments and voted for a harsher…