McCrary v. State

Carley, Chief Judge.

Appellant was tried before a jury on an indictment charging him with six counts of selling cocaine. On the morning after the jury had begun its deliberations, the jury forewoman reported to the trial court that she had received an anonymous telephone call the previous evening. According to the forewoman, the unknown caller had reported information calculated to evoke sympathy for appellant. The trial court determined that another juror had received a similar anonymous call. When the trial court asked if the two could “put that information quickly out of [their] minds and…