Taylor v. State

Citations

• 42 Tex. 504

Syllabus

<p>Charge op court—Practice. After tlie jury have received their instructions from the court on the trial of a criminal charge, if additional instructions are desired by them, they should be brought by the officer in charge into court, and, after notice given to the defendant or his attorney, should be instructed only on the points about which additional instructions are asked. To instruct them through an officer, without notice to defendant or .his counsel, is error, for which a j udg:ment of conviction will be reversed.</p>