Wallace v. State

The indictment in this case charged the appellant with grand larceny, alleged to have been committed on the 15th day of December, 1928, by unlawfully and feloniously stealing, taking and carrying away 171 pounds of seed cotton, of the value of $15, and two cotton-pick sacks of the value of $1.50, the property of Roger Williams.

Appellant was convicted and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary, and he prosecutes this appeal to reverse said judgment. Appellant, in his motion for a new trial, urges a reversal of the case because one of the jurors left the other eleven of his fellow-jurors,…