Howell v. State

OPINION

DAVID PURYEAR, Justice.

Appellant Raehelle Lee Howell was charged with the offense of driving while intoxicated (DWI), Tex. Pen.Code Ann. § 49.04 (West 2003), and convicted after a jury trial. In three issues on appeal, Howell contends that the county court at law erred when it refused to allow defense counsel to cross examine the arresting officer with a field sobriety test manual, allowed testimony to be read back to the jury upon request, and overruled Howell’s motion for new trial. Because we hold that the trial court’s error in allowing testimony to be read back to the jury without…