Grimsley v. State

Appellant was convicted of grand larceny in the stealing of pulpwood of the value of $28.80 and sentenced to the state penitentiary for four years. She appeals. She assigns and argues a number of asserted errors, but, in view of the conclusion we have reached, it is necessary for us to discuss and pass upon only one of them, and that is whether the dispersal of the jury during the trial of the ease, as hereinafter set out, is reversible error.

It is first necessary to try to deduce the true facts. This must he done primarily from the testimony of A. L. Barksdale, a member of the trial jury,…