Lattimore v. People

Johnson, Justice.

It appears, by the return of the justice who held the court of special sessions, that the jury rendered their verdict in court about 3 o’clock in the morning, on the 16th of June, 1853.

The trial commenced before the jury on the 15th. On the coming in of the jury with their verdict, a question was raised by the plaintiff in error, as to the judgment to be rendered; and, at his request, the court was held open until 12 o’clock of the same day, at the office of H. S. Williams, to give him and his counsel an opportunity to examine the question so raised.

The prisoner, in the…