In re Green
Illinois Supreme Court
George W. Green had been tried and convicted in the Cook Circuit Coiu’t, at November term, 1854, for the murder of his wife. A new trial was granted by Morris, Judge, who presided.
1Opinion of the Court
A verdict in a capital case may be received, although the judge may have announced an adjournment, if instantly afterwards the verdict is presented by the jury.
At the next succeeding term of the Supreme Court, Green, by his counsel, applied for his discharge, on the ground that the case had been once submitted to a jury, and that the jury had been illegally discharged, without rendering a verdict. Submitting the application for an habeas corpus, to be decided upon the following point:
The evidence, arguments of counsel, and charge of court were concluded, and the case submitted to the jury on…
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