Sanders v. State

BBOOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of eighteen 3'ears.

There is no statement of facts in the record. The only question that can be reviewed, in the light of this record, is a bill of exceptions which insists that the verdict of the jury was arrived at by lot. Juror Burton testified that after the jury had agreed to find defendant guilty of murder in the second degree, they had trouble in agreeing on the term of punishment. Some of the jury wanted to give appellant five years, some…