Case ID: ind_130/html/0340-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Elliott, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 15,944.
    Quinn v. The State.
    Filed Feb. 17, 1892.
    CRIMINAL Law. — Instructions.—Directing Bailiff to Give. — It is error for the trial court, in a criminal prosecution, to direct the bailiff to go into the jury room and give the jury instructions as to the return of their verdict.
    
      Same. — Recaption of Verdict by Attorney. — It is error to direct that the verdict should be received by an attorney, unless he is appointed a special judge.
    Prom the Marshall Circuit Court.
    
      J. D. McLaren and E. G. Martindale, for appellant.
    
      A. G. Smith, Attorney General, and 8. IV. Stevens, Prosecuting Attorney, for the State.
   Elliott, C. J.

The judgment in this ease must be reversed. The trial judge directed the bailiff to go into the jury room and give the jury instructions as to the return of their verdict. He also directed that the verdict should be received by an attorney of the court, but did not appoint him a special judge.

Judgment reversed.