Evans v. State

In the amendment to the motion for a new trial it is alleged that “after the jury had been impaneled in this case and sent to their jury room, the solicitor-general stated *157to the court that information had come to him that one of the jurors Avho had qualified and had been accepted as a juror, if not directly, had indirectly used his efforts to keep down a bill of indictment in the case, and that he hoped to show that he heard the testimony on the former trial in, this case, and in view of this information he desired to have the juror brought in and further questioned touching his…