Ryan v. State

The prisoner was convicted in the Criminal Court of Shelby County of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of ten years. Since the judgment of the lower Court must be reversed for errors committed in the conduct of the trial, we pretermit any discussion of the facts.

The first assignment of errors we will notice is *208based upon the misconduct of the jurors. It was shown, upon the motion for a new trial, that one Reasonover, one of the jurors who tried the case, had stated at some time during the progress of the trial, in the presence of several other jurors,…