Land v. State

We will discuss the 4th headnote only. The fifth special ground of the motion for a new trial alleges error “because the court erred in allowing the jury trying these movants to disperse and separate during the dinner hour and progress of the trial without the consent of the movants or their attorney, Gordon Mann, who was the sole attorney representing them at the trial, and which was not known to movants or their attorney until after the rendition of the verdict in this case.” In a note by the judge as to this ground he says: “Movants and their attorney, Gordon Mann, were present when the…