Bowen v. State

Bell, Justice.

The court did not err in refusing a request to charge “that each juror should decide for himself upon his oath what his verdict should be, and that no juror should yield his deliberate conscientious convictions as to what his verdict should be, either by the instance of a fellow-juror or of the majority; that no juror should yield his honest convictions for the sake of unanimity, or to avert the disaster of a mistrial.” The jury are to act as a body, and should be charged as a body. The individual jurors are not to be- addressed in a way to discourage mental harmony and concert,…