Potter v. State

The defendant was convicted of seduction, and his motion for a new trial was overruled. In the motion for a new trial it is alleged that the verdict is contrary to the evidence and to law, and the movant asks that a new trial be granted because of newly discovered evidence, and because J. B. Ponder, one, of the jurors who tried the case, separated himself from his fellow jurors while the jury had the case under consideration, and was out of their hearing for about ten minutes, during which time he had a conversation over the telephone.

According to the evidence for the State, the prosecutrix…