Beauregard v. State

BOWEN, Judge.

The appellant was indicted and convicted for the first degree murder of Diane Walby. Sentence was fixed at life imprisonment.

I

By motion for new trial the appellant raises the issue of the unlawful separation of the jury.

During the evening between the first and second day of the appellant’s trial the jury was allowed to separate before they were taken from Eutaw to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where they spent the night in a motel. Officers of the Sheriff’s Department either took the jurors in small groups or followed the jurors to their homes to allow them to *40get their clothes and take…