Brackin v. State

SIMPSON, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction of the theft of an automobile.

No exceptions were reserved to any rulings of the court during the main trial. Error to reverse is sought to be predicated upon the overruling of the defendant’s motion for a new trial.

It is urged for appellant that the new trial should have been granted because (1) the evidence was preponderantly against the verdict, (2) the court, in instructing the jury, charged upon the effect of the evidence, (3) a detective of the City of Birmingham was .permitted to serve upon the jury, and (4) the jury, during their…