Harris v. State

FOSTER, Justice.

The Court of Appeals reversed the judgment because “of the misconduct (perhaps unintentional) of the sheriff and one of his deputies in their relations with the jury trying the case, during the jury’s deliberations thereon.”

It is a misdemeanor case. The facts are repeated here as stated by the Court of Appeals:

“After the jury had had the case submitted to them; after, in fact, they had deliberated for a long while without reaching an agreement, one of said jurors became ill. The sheriff took said juror, at the juror’s request, away from the other members of the jury, some…