Ramsey v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was charged by complaint and information with operating an open saloon in Bexar County, and was by the jury sentenced to pay a fine of $500.00.

The only complaint we find in the record is to the effect that this verdict of a $500.00 fine was arrived at by lot, and therefore offends against Art. 753, subdiv. 3, C. C. P., in which is set forth as sufficient grounds for the granting of a new trial the following: “3. Where the verdict has been decided by lot, or in any other manner than by a fair expression of opinion by the jurors.”

On the hearing of the motion for a new…