State v. Lewis

The defendant was tried and found guilty of having stolen goods in his pos session. After conviction, but before sentence, he filed a motion for a new trial based upon the general ground that the verdict was contrary to the law and the evidence, and also upon the ground that one of the members of the jury that convicted him was not a qualified juror, for the reason that he had removed to, and was a resident of, the parish of East Baton Rouge. The testimony of the alleged incompetent juror was taken, when the trial judge held him to be qualified, and overruled the motion for a new trial.…