Martinez v. Valdes

Hamilton, Judge,

delivered the following opinion:

In this case, at the assembling of court on June 14, the foreman of the jury, in response to the question of the court whether the jury had agreed upon a verdict replied that they *451had done so the night before at about half past ten o-clock; and that it had been signed and sealed by him at the request of the jury, and handed to the marshal; but that this morning, June 14, one of the jurors had notified the foreman that he had changed his mind. The foreman thereupon rendered the sealed verdict to the court and asked if counsel had any suggestion…