People v. Lee Yune Chong
California Supreme Court
6 Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Sonoma County, from an order refusing to enter a judgment of acquittal, and from an order refusing to direct that the defendant be discharged. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtMcFarland, J.
The appellant was accused of the crime of murder, and the jury returned the following verdict: “We, the jury, find the defendant guilty, and fix the penalty at imprisonment for life.” This verdict was declared and duly recorded, and the jurors were discharged for the term, and left the court-room. Most of them went downstairs to the clerk’s office to get warrants for their pay as jurors. Three or four of them went, by mistake, to the sheriff’s office, on a still lower floor, where there was a conversation with a third party, who spoke approvingly of the verdict. In the clerk’s office there…
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