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        "text": "Wood, J.\nAppellant was convicted of murder in the second egree, and sentenced to nineteen years in the penitentiary.\n1. The tenth ground of the motion for new trial alleges hat the jury, after being impaneled to try the cause, were exposed to improper influences in this: \u201cthat the said jury was not at all times in charge of a specially sworn officer or in the presence of the court.\u201d The bill of exceptions shows that, after a part of the evidence for the State had been submitted to the jury, and during the recess of the court, the special bailiff who had charge of the jury received word that a member of his family was sick, and thereupon he left the jury in charge of a regular deputy sheriff, who had not been specially sworn to take charge of the jury and to keep them from improper influences. There were a great many people in the court room where the jury were left. This was all in the absence of the judge and the defendant. Section 2390 of Kirby\u2019s Digest is as follows: \u201cThe jurors, before the case is submitted to them, may, in the discretion of the court, be permitted to separate, or be kept together in charge of proper officers. The officers must be sworn to keep the jury together during the adjournment of the court, and suffer no person to speak to or communicate with them on any subject connected with\u2019 the trial, nor to do so themselves.\u201d\nIt is within the discretion of the court, under the statute, \"before the cause is submitted to the jury, to permit them to separate, or to keep them together. When the court decided to keep them together, that showed that such course was deemed necessary to secure the accused a fair trial. Having exercised the discretion to keep the jury together in charge of proper officers, the statutory requirements should have been complied with, in order to preserve the integrity of the trial. These provisions are designed to shield the jury from any extraneous influences that might prevent a fair and impartial trial. The purity of the trial is impeached prima facie by showing that the jury was- subjected to such influences, and the burden was at least cast upon the State to show that no prejudice in fact resulted. Maclin v. State, 44 Ark. 115; Vaughan v. State, 57 Ark. 1.\n2. Lee Newman, a witness on behalf of the State, testified that he did not see defendant cut deceased\u2019s throat, but that he told George Pruett and George Burns that he did. Over the objection of appellant,\" witnesses George Pruett and George Burns were permitted to testify in substance that Lee Newman told them that he saw defendant cut deceased\u2019s throat. This testimony of Pruett and Burns was hearsay, and therefore incompetent. It was not in contradiction of anything witness Newman had testified to, and was not therefore admissible to impeach such witness. No proper foundation had been laid for his impeachment. By permitting this testimony the State was allowed to show indirectly what she could not prove directly. The testimony was improper and erroneous. But its prejudicial effect was probably removed by an instruction which was given by the court at the instance of appellant. For this reason we would not reverse for this error alone. The error in this regard will not likely be repeated on another trial. For the error in not granting new trial for the reason set up in the tenth ground of the motion therefor, the judgment is reversed, and the cause is remanded for-that purpose.",
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    "head_matter": "Sutherland v. State.\nOpinion delivered September 30, 1905.\n1. Criminal law \u2014 exposure of jury. \u2014 When the court placed the jury in a felony case in charge of a specially sworn officer, as provided by-Kirby\u2019s Digest, \u00a7 2390, and the officer, hearing that a member of his family was sick, left the jury in charge of an officer not specially sworn, the purity of the trial was thereby impeached, and the burden was cast upon the State to show that no prejudice in fact resulted. (Page 487-)\n2. Witness \u2014 impeachment.\u2014Where a witness testified that he did not see defendant cut deceased\u2019s throat, but that he told two persons that he did, it was not admissible to introduce such persons to prove that the witness told them that he - saw defendant cut deceased\u2019s throat, as such testimony did not tend to impeach the witness. (Page 488.)\nAppeal from Newton Circuit Court.\nW. S. McPherson, Special Judge.\nReversed.\nW. S. Moore and J. M. Shinn, for appellant.\nA new trial should have been granted on account of newly \u201e discovered evidence. 57 Ark. 1; 66 Ark. 620; 78 Tex. 421; 42 N. W. 112; 29 Tex. App. 328, 169; 26 Ark. 496; 14 R. R. A. 609; 99 N. Y. 125. It was error to admit evidence of conversations had in the absence of appellant. 36 So. 609; 46 S. E. 840; 76 S. W. 563; 46 S. E. 733. The remarks of the court upon the testimony of Ruth Rewis were improper. Const., art. 7 \u00a7 23; 49 Ark. 439; 62 Ark. 126. The instructions as to-the credibility of witnesses were erroneous. Hughes, Instr. Jur. 215, 217, 220; 88 S. W. 822; 47 S. E. 37. Instruction No. 9 was abstract and misleading. 43 Ark. 289; 45 Ark. 165, 292; 49 \\rk. 165; 53 Ark. 381; 55 Ark. 244; 58 Ark. 108; Const., art. 115; 57 Ark. 1; 66 Ark. 16, 545.\nRobert L. Rogers, Attorney General, for appellee.\nThe argument of the prosecuting attorney was not prejudiial. 75 Ark. 67."
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