Brooks v. Williams

While mention is made in the majority opinion of the verdict on a former trial going out with the jury, and we have held a number of times that it is the better practice to cover or remove former verdicts, yet these rulings are based upon a request made to the court by a party desiring its deletion. Russell v. Brunswick Gro. Co., 120 Ga. 38 (3) (47 SE 528); Ellard v. State, 46 Ga. App. 345 (167 SE 724). A mere inadvertent sending out of the former verdict to the jury along with the pleadings, etc., will not be ground for reversal unless it appears thát the jury read the verdict and were…