Jenss v. Harrod

The amended return herein shows that while the jury were deliberating upon their verdict *625the city judge was informed, in the presence of the plaintiffs’ counsel, by the city marshal who had the jury in charge, that the jury desired to see the city judge; that thereupon the city judge left the bench, went out of the room into the hall, the plaintiffs’ counsel following him about half way across the court room, and that the city judge entered the jury room alone and unattended, and answered a question of one of the jurors pertinent to the case; that the door to the jury room was closed after…