OPINION
THOMAS, Chief Justice.
The issue is whether jurors should be allowed to pose written questions to witnesses during a criminal trial. Although not banning the practice entirely, we find an abuse of discretion and harm when the court allowed the prosecution to use a juror's question, which was never asked of a witness, to gain an unfair advantage in the trial. Accordingly, the judgment assessing Appellant a fifty-year sentence for murder is reversed...
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