Case Name: JOHNSON against DEPUY
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1807-02
Citations: 2 N.J.L. 165
Docket Number: 
Parties: JOHNSON against DEPUY.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 152–152

Head Matter:
JOHNSON against DEPUY.
03ST CERTIORARI.
Verdict must be rendered by voice in open court.

Opinion:
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.