Edwards v. State

MEMORANDUM OPINION

CORNISH, Judge:

The appellant was convicted of Rape in the Second Degree in Comanche County District Court Case No. CRF — 79-618. He was sentenced to three (3) years’ imprisonment.

The dispositive issue before this Court is whether two exhibits inadvertently taken into the jury room materially prejudiced the appellant. The two exhibits had not been introduced into evidence during the trial.

During jury deliberations, the bailiff delivered to the jury all the exhibits which had been introduced at trial. Among these exhibits were a medical report and a laboratory report which had…