Cambron v. State

Headnotes 1 and 5 require no elaboration.

The record in this case shows that during the first trial thereof “two persons jointly indicted for murder elected to sever, and A was first placed on trial (thus postponing the result as to B to the verdict in the case of A); and after a jury had been selected and sworn and several witnesses had testified for the State, one of the jurors in the trial of A announced to the court that his wife was a first cousin to B. This statement of the juror was not contraverted, but seems to have been accepted as true by the judge and all parties to the cause.…