State v. Hughes

The defendant relies upon two bills of exception in support of her appeal. The first bill was taken to the overruling of a motion for a new trial, based upon the fact that one of the jurors, during a recess of the court, after the state had introduced its evidence and before the defendant had offered any evidence, expressed the opinion to a bystander that there was no doubt that the defendant was guilty of the crime for which she was on trial. The motion for a new trial was properly overruled on the ground that it came too late, being filed after the sentence was imposed. The other bill of…