Daniel v. State

This plaintiff in error was convicted on an indictment for burglary containing two counts. He filed a motion for new trial on the usual general grounds and by amendment added one special ground. The court overruled the motion and the defendant excepted. We see no necessity of setting forth the evidence. It amply sustained the verdict; and there is no merit in the general grounds.

The special ground complains that the court erred in overruling a motion for a mistrial based on a statement of a witness, whose place was the subject of an alleged burglary, that he had received certain information…