Case ID: njl_2/html/0152-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Kirkpatrick, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JOHNSON against DEPUY.
    03ST CERTIORARI.
    Verdict must be rendered by voice in open court.
   Kirkpatrick, C. J.

— It appears from the return of the justice, that the jury wrote down their verdict and°delivered the writing to the justice instead of openly pronouncing their verdict. We have no such practice. [121] It would be subject to great abuses. We know of no lawful verdict but that which is pronounced by open voice, in open court; a privy verdict is a differemt thing, and has no resemblance to this case. For this reason let judgment be set aside.

Rossell and Pennington, Justices. — ^Concurred.

Judgment reversed.