When the jury appear they must be asked by the Court, or Clerk, whether they have agreed upon their verdict, and if the foreman answers in the affirmative, they must, on being required, declare the same.
Cal. Penal Code § 1149
The Verdict or Finding
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case People v. Smalling (1892)
Most recently applied in People v. Jackson (September 2022)
Enacted 1872.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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