GRIMES, Judge.
This appeal poses the question of whether the court was obligated to declare a mistrial when it was discovered that an alternate juror had sat in on a portion of the jury's final deliberations.
Appellant was charged with grand theft, the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Following receipt of the court's instructions, the jury retired to consider its verdict. At this point the judge...
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