Dueitt v. State

ZEHMER, Judge.

Defendant below, Edward Dueitt, appeals his conviction of first degree murder, contending that the trial court should have granted his motion for new trial on grounds of juror misconduct.

*1259During the second day of the three-day trial, defense counsel discovered that a member of the jury was an employee of Washington County and had worked on repairs to defendant’s cell made necessary by defendant’s attempted escape while being held on the murder charge. Defense counsel represents that he obtained information that defendant and the juror knew each other and that the juror may have…