Springfield v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is selling securities without having been registered as a dealer by the Securities Commission of Texas; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for one year.

*342In view of our disposition of this appeal, a statement of the facts will not be necessary.

The trial judge admonished the jury against a quotient verdict in his written charge as follows:

“* * * it would not be permitted of each juror to state or set down a number of years and that you should add up the total of the sums so stated and divide the same by the number of jurors, and thereby agree to be bound…