State v. Bennett

The appellant was convicted of the crime of embezzlement, and brings his case here on appeal.

Among the errors assigned, few are possessed of merit. During the progress of the trial and while the jury was passing along the street in charge of two bailiffs, one of the jurors stopped and had some conversation with some bystanders. He then went into a lunch counter which occupied a storeroom with a cigar store, the two being separated by a partition seven feet high, with an open door or archway between the two places. The juror ordered and ate his supper and then went out. The remaining jurors…