Lakey v. State

On a former appeal in this case (Lakey v. State, 206 Ala. 180, 89 South. 605), the Supreme Court, speaking through Sayre, J., took occasion to criticize the action of the deputy sheriff because he went into the jury room and remained for a period of from 10 to 80 miniltes without any apparent necessity therefor, although the evidence taken on application for a new trial tended to show that there was no communication between the deputy and the jury on the subject of the pending case. The intimation was, though not so decided, that this action was sufficient to have reversed the case. On this…