Flores v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

McCORMICK, Judge.

We granted appellant’s petition for discretionary review to review the holding of the Thirteenth Court of Appeals, 654 S.W.2d 14, as to the appellant’s allegation of jury misconduct resulting from discussion of parole laws. The Court of Appeals applied the test that was set out in the plurality opinion in Munroe v. State, 637 S.W.2d 475 (Tex.Cr.App.1982), and found no reversible error. On May 23, 1984, this Court handed down an opinion in the case of Sneed v. State, 670 S.W.2d 262 (1984), in which we readopted “the five…