Dowd v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of manslaughter, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

This is the second appeal of this case. See former opinion in volume 52 Texas Crim. Rep. 563.

In appellant’s motion for a new trial he complains of the misconduct of the jury in that after the jury retired to consider their verdict, one of them talked with the county judge of the county. In the course of said conversation, the county judge remarked to the said juror Lyon that the defendant (meaning this defendant) was guilty of murder. That said judge did not know…