US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  19
                              CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
                                  CHAPTER 23
                                   VERDICT
    19-2314.  RECONSIDERATION OF VERDICT. When there is a verdict of
conviction, in which it appears to the court that the jury have mistaken the
law, the court may explain the reason for that opinion and direct the jury to
reconsider their verdict, and if, after the reconsideration, they return the
same verdict, it must be entered; but when there is a verdict of acquittal,
the court can not require the jury to reconsider it. If the jury render a
verdict which is neither general nor special, the court may direct them to
reconsider it, and it can not be recorded until it is rendered in some form
from which it can be clearly understood that the intent of the jury is either
to render a general verdict or to find the facts specially and to leave the
judgment to the court.