State v. Foster

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parlange, J.

The defendant having been indicted for murder, was tried, found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to imprisonment in the State penitentiary for a term of twenty years. He has appealed. He relies, for the reversal of the judgment against him, upon three bills of exception. The gravest complaint which he makes is as to the refusal of the judge a quo to grant him a new trial. The morion for a new trial alleges, among other matters, that the jurors separated while they were deliberating; that they drank a large quantity of whiskey; that one…