State v. Craighead

Citations

• 114 La. 84
• 38 So. 28
• 1905 La. LEXIS 420

Syllabus

<p>CRIMINAL LAW — TRIAL—SEPARATION OE JURORS.</p> <p>1. When, upon a trial for murder, five jurors have been accepted and sworn, and, the hour of adjournment having arrived, the trial judge directs that such jurors, together with seven others who are in the box, but who are unaccepted and unsworn, shall be taken in charge by the sheriff and kept together until the convening of the court upon the following day, and the defendant thereupon objects to the involuntary association of the sworn with the unsworn jurors, the overruling of the objection is reversible error.</p> <p>2. In capital cases the jurors should not be permitted to separate after they have been sworn, either before the jury is completed or afterwards, whether with or without the consent of the accused, nor should they be exposed to association or contact with persons other than the officers of the court charged with their custody.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>