Carrillo v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of murder. The punishment is imprisonment for forty years.

The appellant argues that the trial court abused its discretion in allowing a jury of eleven to proceed to a verdict after the court had discharged one of the jurors. In this case the jury had been sworn and impaneled and the State had started to present its evidence. After hearing the testimony for approximately thirty minutes, one of the jurors informed the trial court that she remembered that the appellant’s sister had been one of her pupils and she further…