Sharpe v. State

The first and second headnotes do not require elaboration.

One ground of the motion for new trial is as follows: “Because each of the two nights after the jury would leave the courthouse to retire for the night, during the trial of the case and’ before they returned a verdict to the court, the foreman of the jury, Mr. J. 0. Ward, without knowledge of the defendant or defendant’s counsel and without the consent of the judge of said court, was allowed by the bailiff in charge to separate from the rest of the jury and sleep in a separate room with his wife, and he would remain there until the…