State v. Breen

This was an indictment for grand larceny. The defendant was tried by a jury, was found guilty and sentenced.to im*414prisonment in the penitentiary for a term of two years. After the jury had returned a verdict of “guilty” the defendant filed a motion for a new trial, and in arrest of the judgment, which motions being severally overruled and the defendant excepted and appealed to this court.

The main ground insisted on by the defendant for a new trial and for arresting the judgment-, and the only ground insisted on in this court for tlie reversal of the judgment, is, that three of the jurors who…