Anderson v. State

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Scott, J.

— Defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree and is under sentence of death. Only one question is presented by the record. The case was given to the jury in the afternoon of March 25, 1890. It appears by affidavits in support of a motion for a new trial that the jury agreed upon their verdict some time during the night, and the same was signed, sealed up, and de*184livered to their foreman, and thereupon the jurors left the jury-room, separated, and went around the town for several hours, and did not re-assemble until court convened on…