Legal Opinion
Hill v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided November 6, 2002No. 1385-01Published
1Opinion of the Court 1
90 S.W.3d 308 (2002)
Samuel B. HILL, Appellant,
v.
The STATE of Texas.
No. 1385-01.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.
November 6, 2002.
Scott Brown, Fort Worth, for Appellant.
Debra Ann Windsor, Assistant District Attorney, Fort Worth, Matthew Paul, State's Attorney, Austin, for State.
Before the court en banc.
OPINION
2Opinion of the Court · KeaslerKeasler, J., joined by Meyers, Price, Womack, Johnson, and Hervey
The trial judge declared a mistrial for reasons undisclosed on the record. Under the applicable statutes, there is no conceivable reason he could have had that would have risen to the level of "manifest necessity." The State asks us to order an abatement to discover the judge's…
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