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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Buster Sample v. State.
    No. A-179.
    Opinion Filed January 25, 1910.
    (106 Pac. 557.)
    TRIAL — Separation of Jury. Section 68'58, Snyder’s Comp. Laws 1909, requires the jury to be kept together, after a case, is finally submitted to them, until a verdict is agreed upon.
    (Syllabus by the Court.)
    
      Error from District Court, Atoha County;' A. T. West, Judge.
    
    The plaintiff in error, Buster Sample, was tried in the district court of Atoka county, November term, 1908, on an indictment 'charging him with rape. He was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for a térra of ten years. The case is before' us on appeal.
    Confession of error'filed, and ease reversed.
    
      Q. T. Ralls and J. G. Ralls, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Charles West, Atty." Gen., and Chas. L. Moore, Asst. Atty., Gen., for the State.
   OWEN, Judge.

The record in' this case discloses that the jury were permitted to separate after the case had been finally submitted to them, and before a verdict had been agreed upon. It appears that they were instructed by the court .to return to the jury room after supper and consider of their vedict, and, if they were unable to agree after a reasonable time, they might separate for the night and return to the jury room on the following morning for further consideration. And it appears that' they were unable to agree during the night, and 'did separate and return to the jury room the following morning, after which the verdict was agreed upon and returned into court. The Attorney General has filed his written confession of' error in this case, confessing that under section 6858 of the statute (Snyder’s Comp. Laws 1909), and the rule announced in Bilton v. Territory, 1 Okla. Cr. 566, 99 Pac. 163, the action of the court in permitting the jury to separate was error

The confession of error is sustained, and case reversed and remanded.

FUEMAN, PRESIDING Judge, and DOYLE, Judge, concur.