Hawkins v. State

OPINION

JIM R. WRIGHT, Chief Justice.

The jury convicted Nathaniel Hawkins Jr. of the offense of aggravated sexual assault. The jury also made an affirmative finding regarding a deadly weapon allegation and assessed Hawkins’s punishment at confinement for life. We affirm.

On appeal, Hawkins maintains in his first issue that the trial court erred when it denied his motion for mistrial made after a juror informed the trial court that the juror had just learned (from the testimony) that a hammer and mask had been found behind his house during the investigation of this offense. In his second and…