Spencer v. State

This is an appeal by John Spencer, appellant, from a conviction of forgery in the Vanderburgh Circuit Court. Appellant, by way of motion for a new trial, assigns a number of errors, only a part of which are relied upon in his brief. The first of these discussed is that during the trial, members of the police department, prosecuting staff, investigators, and the public generally mingled with the jury and passed through the room where the jury was waiting during recesses and intermission periods and that it was possible for the jurors to overhear statements - and comments of spectators and…