Ferreri v. State

ALLEN, Judge.

The above cases were consolidated on appeals from final judgments in a lottery case. After trial, they were found guilty on two counts each, being unlawfully interested in a lottery and being possessed of *579paraphernalia evidencing an interest in a lottery.

The main contention of the appellants is that the trial judge announced to the jury at the beginning of the third day of trial that he had been informed by one of the jurors of a bribe proposition concerning a $1,500 offer to bribe.

Counsel for the defendants, in the absence of the jury, found that the juror in question had, the…