Sheppard v. State

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The evidence authorized the verdict, and the court below did not err in overruling the general grounds of the motion for new trial.

Ground 1 of the amendment to the motion complains that the trial judge erred for the reason that during the entire trial, beginning with the impaneling of the jury until the testimony had been concluded, and until the judge’s charge had been finished, the defendant was surrounded and kept under close guard by two or three bailiffs or deputies, who sat in close proximity to the defendant, thereby separating him from his counsel,…