125 Tex. Crim. 21 - Starnes v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Starnes says: Certainly the jurors in such former trial could not be put one by one on the witness stand and had to swear that they believed that in said former trial this appellant told a lie, yet in substance and effect this is put before this jury by proof of the verdict they returned. All these cases lay down the rule that the present jury has no right to consider the result of the former case as establishing the fact that the accused in this case then lied, and all agree that, unless the jury are told in the present case not to base their verdict upon the fact that another jury believed the accused lied when he gave the same testimony before them, the case must be reversed. . . [Id. 338.] [Emphasis added.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Naranjo