Lera v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.

Appellant insists that we were in error in our disposition of his complaint that the jury after their retirement to consider the case received information from one of the jurors that he had heard that appellant had been given the death penalty on a former trial at Galveston.

We have again examined the statement of facts upon the hearing of the motion for new trial upon this point. Obviously it would be impractical to set out in an opinion all of the testimony of each juror. We must be governed largely by the impression left upon our minds from…