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Reese v. State

Citations

  • 773 S.W.2d 314
  • 1989 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 143
  • 1989 WL 65809

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding there was no error when trial judge twice sent the jury back for further deliberations due to confusion over the verdict forms
  • noting that “a poll of the jury must be requested or it is waived”
  • determining that trial court correctly sent “the jury back for further deliberations” when jury did not provide verdict for one offense and when verdict forms by jury were “in conflict and insufficient”
  • holding that, when the jury’s original verdict forms were in conflict and insufficient, the trial judge did not err in sending the jury back to re-deliberate because the trial court had the duty to send the jury back to deliberate and the appellant did not object to the trial court’s actions
  • holding that, when the jury's original verdict forms were in conflict and insufficient, the trial judge did not err in sending the jury back to re-deliberate because the trial court had the duty to send the jury back to deliberate and the appellant did not object to the trial court's actions
  • “A verdict must be certain, consistent, and definite. It may not be conditional, qualified, speculative, inconclusive, or ambiguous.”

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Judges: Davis

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