Millsaps v. State

Banke, Chief Judge.

The appellant was convicted of child molestation, statutory rape, and rape. On appeal, he contends that he was prejudiced during the course of the jury’s deliberations by the act of one of the jurors in reading to the other jurors from the judge’s charge book.

The trial was held in a double-wide mobile home furnished for that purpose due to repairs which were being made to the roof of the county courthouse. Following the close of the evidence, argument of counsel, and charge of court, the jurors were left alone in the courtroom to deliberate, while the judge, counsel, and…