Fox v. State

EDWARD N. SCRUGGS, Circuit Judge.

The indictment charged the defendant with transporting- prohibited liquors in quantities of five gallons or more. Upon a jury trial, she was found guilty, and the trial court imposed a three-year sentence.

On the day that the defendant’s motion for a new trial was heard, amended grounds were filed, among which were the following:

11. For that the jury verdict was rendered due to coercion on behalf of some of the other jurors.

12. For that some of the jurors were lead to believe that a mistrial could not be rendered and that they would be held together until all…