Dixon v. State

1. Tbe accused was convicted of selling intoxicating liquor, and excepts to the overruling of his motion for a new trial. The one special ground of the motion alleges that *418“before the court recessed at 13:30 for dinner, the court instructed the officer in charge to take the jury to dinner, . . that when the court reconvened at 3 o’clock the jury had returned to the jury room and were deliberating said case;” that sometime thereafter the court had the jury brought back from the jury room, and the following occurred: “The court: Gentlemen, have you agreed on a verdict in this case? The jury:…