Title 22. Criminal Procedure.

Superseded Effective December 30,1899

Chapter 12
§857. Jury Decides After Charge-In Court-Retirement for Deliberation-Determination of Sentence

After hearing the charge, the jury may either decide in court, or may retire for deliberation. The jury shall determine whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty, but shall not determine the sentence for persons convicted of crimes committed on or after July 1, 1999, unless the trial is for the offense of first degree murder. If they do not agree without retiring, one or more officers must be sworn to keep them together in some private and convenient place, and not to permit any person to speak to or communicate with them, nor do so themselves, unless it be by order of the court, or to ask them whether they have agreed upon a verdict, and to return them into court when they have so agreed, or when ordered by the court.

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