State v. Ford

BRANCH, Justice.

By his first assignment of error, defendant contends that the trial judge erred in refusing to review certain evidence at the jury’s request after it had begun its deliberation. It appears from the record that after deliberating for several hours, the jury returned to the courtroom whereupon the following exchange took place:

COURT: All right, ladies and gentlemen, I understand you have a question.

FOREMAN: Your Honor, we would like answered —we can’t remember which time did each man, Barbee and Ford, sign his rights and on what date was this, and what time did the detectives go…