Johnson v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of horse theft, from which judgment the appeal is prosecuted.

The first ground of the motion for a new trial is to the effect that Middleton was permitted, over appellant’s objection, to remain on the jury and act as foreman'’ of the jury after he had disclosed the fact that he‘ was a member of the grand jury that presented and found the bill of indictment, said Middleton having testified on the voir dire examination that he had never heard of this case or any of the facts connected with it. This is simply stated as a ground of the.motion for…