Baskin v. State

Baskin was convicted of burglary. He filed a motion for a new trial on September 27, 1930, which was' overruled on December 6, 1930, to which' judgment no exception was taken. On March 31, 1931, the defendant filed an “extraordinary motion for a new trial on the grounds of newly discovered evidence.” The first ground of this motion alleges that one of the jurors, when asked on the voir dire what his occupation was, stated that he was a grocery clerk; that defendant believed this to be his only occupation; that while he was a clerk in his father’s grocery store, he was also a supernumerary on…