Jones v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of theft of a horse and his punishment assessed at seven vears confinement in the penitentiary.

Appellant’s motion for a new trial insists that the court erred in overruling the motion to quash the indictment. The indictment is in the usual form, and the court did not err in overruling the motion.

The .second complaint is, that one of the jurors who tried this case stated to the other jurors, after this case had been submitted to the jury and the jury had retired" to consider this case, that he knew defendant to be a horse thief and defendant had stolen…