Jones v. State

Decided April 9, 1969

Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · decided 1969-04-09

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“"After the jury have retired for deliberation, if there be a disagreement between them as to any part of the testimony or if they desire to be informed on a point of law arising in the cause, they must require the officer to conduct them into court. Upon their being brought into court, the information required must be given in the presence of, or after notice to the county attorney and the defendant or his counsel, or after they have been called."”

quoted by 4 later decisions, including Savage v. State, Tabor v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1969-04-09

How this case has been cited

Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 1990

15 state decisions

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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NIX, Judge

¶1(dissenting).

¶2Title 22, O.S.A. § 894 reads:

“After the jury have retired for deliberation, if there be a disagreement between them as to any part of the testimony or if they desire to be informed on a point of law arising in the cause, they must require the officer to conduct them into court. Upon their being brought into court, the information required must be given in the presence of, or after notice to the county attorney and the defendant or his counsel, or after they have been called.”

¶3I fully believe the statutes of this State should be complied with, or repealed.