Grady v. State

The appellant, James Grady, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary, from which conviction, he appeals.

The evidence is ample to sustain a conviction. The only error assigned as reversible is that the court erred in overruling- the defendant’s motion for a new trial, and assigned as reason therefor that J. W. Passon, who was a bailiff in charge of the jury during.the trial, had also been and was the justice of the peace who had assisted the sheriff in locating* the witnesses after the killing, and had heard a preliminary trial and .bound the…