State v. Teel

BROCK, Chief Judge.

Defendant assigns as error that the trial judge coerced the jury into finding defendant guilty of larceny.

The record discloses that the jury deliberated from 4:35 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. on one afternoon and from 9:05 a.m. until 10:10 a.m. the next morning. The jury came into open court and its foreman announced that it had agreed upon a verdict as to one count in the indictment but stood eleven to one as to the other count. The trial judge instructed the jury as follows:

“Members of the Jury, the Court gives you the following instructions. Listen very carefully to what I have…