Clepper v. State

BELCHER, Judge.

The conviction is for assault with intent to murder with malice; the punishment, five years in the penitentiary.

The statement of facts herein cannot be considered because the same was filed too late.

Appellant by Formal Bill of Exception No. 1 shows that the trial court, at the conclusion of the argument to the jury, delivered several printed forms of verdict to a member of the trial jury which had not been submitted to the appellant or his counsel or filed with the clerk of the court; and that neither appellant nor his counsel saw the forms of verdict until after the return of…