The case of a San Antonio woman accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter ended in a mistrial Monday after one of the jurors said he would kill himself if he was forced to change his vote to guilty.

The message in the last of three notes the jury sent out Monday stunned spectators at the murder trial of Andrisela Ng, 24, who prosecutors accuse of severely beating her daughter, Gianna Espinoza, in December 2008 because she soiled herself.

All three notes informed state District Judge Maria Teresa Herr that they were hung at 11-1 for guilty, though it was unclear if it was for murder, or a lesser included charge of injury to a child.

The note also said the holdout juror would kill himself if he had to change his vote to guilty.

Without a definitive conclusion, Ng may be retried in January, prosecutors and her lawyers said.

Jurors declined to comment afterward.

“Never in all my years of practice have I had a note like that,” said Stephanie Boyd, one of Ng's lawyers. “This juror decided what his vote was and he was not going to bend.”

Prosecutors Catherine Hayes and Lorina Rummel concurred.

“He would not talk to the other jurors or look at the photos,” Hayes said. “He would not participate in the deliberations.”

During the trial last week, Ng began to cry so loud after her attorneys showed her an autopsy photo of her daughter that the trial was temporarily stopped.

Under cross-examination, she could not explain how her daughter got 46 bruises.

“My child didn't leave my home with those marks on her,” Ng testified.

But Ng acknowledged that she was the only adult home when her daughter became unresponsive from what turned out to be traumatic head injury. That is the crux of the case, Hayes and Rummel said during closing arguments.

They theorized Ng lost her temper after Gianna soiled herself and Ng had to clean it up. Gianna's injuries included defensive wounds to her hands, bruises behind her ears from being yanked, bruises on her face from being grabbed and leg bruises that indicate an object was used to beat her, Hayes said.

But there's no evidence the bruises weren't caused by doctors and emergency responders as they worked to save her life that day, Boyd and her co-counsel Jamissa Jarmon argued.

In addition, Boyd said, the medical examiner's office determined that there were no healing broken bones or fractures – an indication of continuing abuse.

“This has always been about one thing: a rush to judgment against Mrs. Ng,” Boyd said during closing arguments.