Sealing A Verdict

In practice. The putting a verdict in writing, and placing it in an envelope, which is sealed. To relieve jurors after they have agreed, it is not unusual for the counsel to agree that the jury shall seal their verdict and then separate. When the court is again in session, the jury come in and give their verdict in the sealing he has honestly changed his mind. 8 Ohio, 405; 1 Gilm. 333; 3 Bouv. Inst, note 3257.

The putting a verdict in writing, and placing it in an envelope, which is sealed. To relieve jurors after they have agreed, it is not unusual for the counsel to agree that the jury shall seal their verdict and then separate. When the had not been sealed; and a juror may dissent from it if since the sealing he has honestly changed his mind; Sutliff v. Gilbert, 8 Ohio, 405; Cook v. Scot t, 1 Gilm. (111.) 333. A sealed verdict of guilty on certain counts of an indictment, without any finding as to the other counts, is held not to be invalidated by permitting the jury, after the verdict is opened, but before it is recorded, to amend it by adding not guilty as to the others; Hechter v. Maryland, 94 Md. 429, 50 Atl. 1041, 56