Woods v. State

We granted the writ of certiorari in this case to review the decision of the Court of Criminal Appeals in this case that reversed the trial court for denying the plea of former jeopardy of Ethel Morgan Woods. Her plea was filed on the occasion of her being brought to trial for the second time; a mistrial had been declared during the course of her first trial.

During her first trial the district attorney called to the attention of the trial judge a conversation between her mother and a juror. The judge, who also observed the conversation, placed the juror under oath and discovered the juror had…