Jones v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

This appeal is from a conviction in the District Court of Montague County for transporting intoxicating liquor, with punishment fixed at eighteen months in the penitentiary.

There are no bills of exception in the record to the reception or rejection of any testimony. There is a bill to the refusal of a new trial, and one to the overruling of appellant’s motion for an instructed verdict.

Appellant’s motion for a new trial set up the fact that through a statement made by some one in the court room the jury deprived information that a witness by the name of Hester had been…