following the court’s recess yesterday afternoon affect you[,]” and to “hear the case out and render a decision you feel is a proper decision without consideration of any event or any fear of any sort.” Id. The trial court denied Williams’ motions for mistrial and to poll the jury. We held that Williams presented no evidence in the record “that the incident so prejudiced the jury that it could not fairly assess punishment.” Id. at 822. Improper bystander conduct against the defendant that is verbal is held to the same test as improper physical contact, and in general a trial court does not abuse its discretion by denying the defendant’s motion for mistrial if it instructs the jurors to disregard the improper conduct. See Brown v. State, 92 S.W.3d 655, 661 (Tex.App.-Dallas 2002) (<HOLDING>), aff'd on other grounds, 122 S.W.3d 794
holding outburst from victims father telling jury to give my son justice please cured by trial courts instruction to jury to disregard remark holding that instruction to disregard cured error from prosecutors improper comment during voir dire holding almost any improper argument may be cured by an instruction to disregard holding that a trial judge is obliged to give a correct jury instruction notwithstanding that request for instruction was technically erroneous if the evidence generates the subject matter of the jury instruction holding that a jury is presumed to heed the district courts instruction to disregard the fact that the defendants were held in contempt and admonished before the jury