People v. Monroe

Defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to imprisonment for life, and prosecutes review by writ of error.

The jury, before whom he was tried, was comprised of nine men and three women. The trial judge submitted the case to the jury about 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and at midnight permitted the jurors to separate and go to their homes to return the next morning at half-past 8 o’clock. The jurors duly appeared the next morning, retired again to consider the case, and returned a verdict of guilty. It is urged, as the sole ground for reversal, that the court was in…