Territory v. Taylor

OPINION BY

SHANNON, J.

The jury rendered a verdict of guilty on the 24th of Decem. her last, and on the same day the defendants’ counsel gave *480oral notice of a motion for a new trial, specifying the alleged error in tbe charge, afterwards embodied in the written motion, which was tiled January 12th, 1878. Besides this alleged error in law, the written motion contains two other reasons: First, that “after the j ury had retired to deliberate upon their verdict, and while they were so deliberating, they read and examined the Statutes of Dakota, and other works of law on the subject of libel,” and…