Patterson v. State

BETHEA, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of the offense of manslaughter, and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. •

The record contains but one bill of exception. It complains of the action of the learned trial judge in overruling appellant’s motion for a new trial predicated upon the misconduct of the jury in separating pending their deliberation upon the case.

Upon the hearing before the court upon the motion for a new trial, proof was adduced, and it was made to appear that before the jurors had reached a verdict the jury was separated; that some were sitting at tables in the back…