OPINION
PRICE, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.
When it was discovered early in the course of the appellant's trial for aggravated sexual assault that one of the jurors had served on the grand jury that originally indicted him, the trial court sua sponte declared a mistrial. The Texarkana Court of Appeals, with one justice dissenting, held that the State's attempt to try the appellant a second time following the mistrial violated...
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