I can reproduce the error with attached OpenJUMP file which has a faulty style string
SIMBOL(c:#000000, id:\"ogr-sym-1\")
System tolerates extra spaces nowadays so I had to introduce a bigger error.
Command "ogr2ogr -f "mapinfo file" ogrstyle.mif ogr_style_error.jml" makes ogr2ogr.exe to crash on Windows 7 without any error messages.
Tested with GDAL 2.0-dev