Moss v. State

1. Jim Hugh Moss was jointly indicted with Cliff Thompson and Eula E. Thompson, for the murder of Coleman Osborn by shooting him with a pistol. Moss on separate trial was convicted. One ground of his motion for new trial is because the court admitted in evidence a “magnifying glass for the use of the jury in making a comparison, if they saw fit to use it, . . to see more clearly the marks on the shells” that had been admitted in evidence. The admission of the magnifying glass in evidence was over the objections: (a) That it was immaterial and irrelevant, (b) That “no member of the jury has…