GALVESTON, Texas — Jurors who will decide the fate of millionaire Robert Durst completed their first day of deliberations Thursday, leaving the judge a note as they left the courthouse that they want to hear testimony read back to them Friday.

Durst, 60, is charged with killing his 71-year-old neighbor in a rundown apartment house in this town 50 miles south of Houston. 

Durst admits dismembering Morris Black's body and fleeing Galveston, but his lawyers claim the killing was accidental. Durst testified that Black pointed a gun at Durst, a .22-caliber target pistol Durst says he hid under his oven broiler to keep it out of Black's hands, and the two struggled for the weapon.

Jurors asked the court to read back the transcript of Durst's testimony about hiding the gun under the broiler. They also want to hear again the testimony of a neighbor who says Durst was trying to sneak into his own apartment two days before the killing.

Judge Susan Criss told lawyers for the defense and prosecution that she will send a note back into the jury room indicating that Texas law does not permit readbacks of a general nature. Jurors will have to indicate that a fact is in dispute and pinpoint limited portions to be read, she said.

Jurors got the case Thursday but had only 80 minutes to pick a foreman and deliberate. On Thursday they deliberated seven hours, breaking only for a 90-minute lunch and every two hours for 15 minutes. Four of the 12 jurors — a panel comprising eight women and four men — took Criss up on her offer to use the 15-minute breaks to smoke outside.

The jury resumes its deliberations on Friday at 9:30 a.m. ET.