Eckert v. State

In Eckert v. State, 623 S.W.2d 359, 364 (Tex. Crim. App. 1981), the Court observed that an instruction to disregard at the deliberations stage is "similar to the corrective action of an instruction to disregard evidence improperly introduced at trial." Eckert, 623 S.W.2d at 364. If the trial court gives an instruction to disregard and that instruction is found to be effective, then under our law, it is as though the evidence was never "received" by the jury. Id.