Franklin v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

KATHIANNE KNAUP CRANE, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from the judgment of the trial court entered on a jury verdict. The trial court originally had declared a mistrial after it accepted the verdict and discharged the jury, but subsequently entered an order concluding that it had no power to order a mistrial after the trial had concluded, and it entered judgment in accord with the jury verdict. We affirm because the trial court had no jurisdiction to declare a mistrial after it had discharged the jury and the trial was complete. Accordingly, it did not err in reconsidering its declaration…