Jones v. State

The accused was convicted of murder, and sentenced to life imprisonment. His motion for a new trial having been overruled, he excepted.

1, 2. It appears from the motion for a new trial that after the jury had been-for some time deliberating, the judge sent for them and inquired if they had agreed upon a verdict or were likely to .agree. Upon being told that they had not agreed, he then inquired if their differences related to a question of fact or a question of law; and upon being told that the failure to agree arose from a question of fact, the judge responded that in that event he could…