State v. Garrity
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Clinton District Court. — -Hon. C. M. Waterman, Judge. The defendant was indicted and tried for the crime of seduction, was found guilty, and sentenced to be confined therefor for the period of eighteen months in the state penitentiary. He appeals from said judgment.
1Opinion of the CourtKinne, J.
1 I. Defendant contends that the court erred in this: That after the trial had proceeded several days, and on October 6, 1894, one of the jurors in the case being ill, the court, against defendant’s objections, and :'dn opposition to his request, then made, that the jury be kept together, did continue, or adjourn, the further hearing of said cause until October 10, 1894, and excused the jury until that time. The complaint is that the court should have kept the jury together during said adjournment. Our statute provides: “The jurors sworn to try an indictment, may, at any time before the final…
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