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Page 197 - A judgment that the defendant pay a fine may also direct that he be imprisoned until the fine be satisfied ; specifying the extent of the imprisonment, which cannot exceed one day for every one dollar of the fine.
Page 34 - After hearing the charge, the jury may either decide in court, or may retire for deliberation. If they do not ,agree without retiring, one or more officers must be sworn, to keep them together in some private and convenient place, and not to permit any person to speak to or communicate with them, nor...
Page 22 - ... 2. Standing in the relation of guardian and ward, attorney and client, master and servant, or landlord and tenant, or being a member of the family of the defendant, or of the person alleged to be injured by the offense charged, or on whose complaint the prosecution was instituted, or in his employment on wages.
Page 181 - The granting of a new trial places the parties in the same position as if no trial had been had. All the testimony must be produced anew, and the former verdict cannot be used or referred to, either in evidence or in argument, or be pleaded in bar of any conviction which might have been had under the indictment.
Page 31 - They may also take with them the written instructions given, and notes of the testimony or other proceedings on the trial, taken by themselves or any of them, but none taken- by any other person.
Page 210 - The appellate court must render judgment according to the justice of the case, without regard to technical errors or defects which do not affect the merits.
Page 35 - When a verdict is rendered, and before it is recorded, the jury may be polled, on the requirement of either party ; in which case, they must be severally asked whether it is their verdict ; and if any one answer in the negative, the jury must be sent out for further deliberation.
Page 100 - A conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of an accomplice unless it be corroborated by such other evidence as shall tend to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense; and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows the commission of the offense or the circumstances thereof.
Page 44 - To employ, for the purpose of maintaining the causes confided to him, such means only as are consistent with truth, and never to seek to mislead the Judges by an artifice or false statement of fact or law; 5.
Page 179 - In all other cases, the defendant may be found guilty of any offense the commission of which is necessarily included in that with which he is charged in the indictment