Bragg v. State

The plaintiff in error was convicted of a violation of the prohibition law, and excepts to the judgment overruling his motion for a new trial. In addition to the usual general grounds, the motion is based upon a large number of special assignments of error. The last two grounds relate to the court’s inquiry, in the hearing of the jury, as to whether counsel objected to the jury’s dispersing, and to the action of the court in subsequently refusing to declare a mistrial. If the court should have declared a mistrial, naturally all the other proceedings of the trial were .nugatory; and for this…