EX PARTE DOWDLE

No. 29599.

309 S.W.2d 458 (1958)

Ex parte Nash J. DOWDLE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 5, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stubbeman, McRae, Sealy & Laughlin, W. B. Browder, Jr., and Milton L. Bankston, Midland, for appellant.

Leonard Howell, County Atty., Joseph H. Mims, Dist. Atty., Midland, Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

Relator Dowdle, a Midland business man, was a juror in a capital felony case.

During the trial, after the State had rested and the defendant was offering testimony, the trial judge received certain information and instructed the bailiff to communicate it to the juror Dowdle. The message received, the instruction to the bailiff, and his report to the court upon his return from the jury room, were taken down by the court reporter and read:

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