Price v. State

OPINION

LATTIMORE, Justice.

Appellant, John Leon Price, was convicted by a jury of the offense of capital murder. See Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 19.03(a)(2) (Vernon Supp.1994). The State waived the death penalty, so that the punishment of confinement for life in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice was automatic. On appeal Price raises sjx points of error contending that the trial court erred: (l)-(2) in permitting the jurors to take written notes during the course of the trial, and in allowing the jurors to rely on those notes during their deliberation at the…