State v. Logue

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hopkins, J.:

The defendant was convicted of violating the prohibitory liquor law and appeals.

1. The defendant complains that the court erred in allowing the court stenographer to read the testimony of one of the state’s witnesses after the jury had deliberated for some hours. He contends that the reading of this particular testimony from the stenographer’s notes gave the testimony undue emphasis.

*392The question appears not to have been passed upon in a criminal case by this court, but in civil cases it has been said to be discretionary with the trial court…