Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

A defendant does not forfeit his complaint on appeal that a trial court gave the jury a coercive oral Allen charge, if he failed to object to the court's earlier improper polling of the jury.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/08/2006
• Published 03/08/2006

Judges

Court

• Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William H. “Bill” Ray, Fort Worth, for appellant., Sylvia Mandel, Asst. Crim. Dist. Atty., Fort Worth, Matthew Paul, State's Attorney, Austin, for state.