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Show Ijat evening after the the court , had1 adjourned,Uie jury beiug in charge ! of the1 marshal, while the crowd were . passing out of the court room judge j McKcao remounted tlie rostrum, called ! the meeting to order, and asked the prosecuting attorney and counsel for i the defendant if they consented lhat the jury might seal up their verdict and then separate, leaving1 the scaled verdict with the elerk ot the court. Mr. Baskin and Mr. Fitch, who happened hap-pened to be in the room, stated thej had- no. objectionsj whereupon- the judge directed the jury to so find iheir j Verdict.. 't!' - ! The value of this agreement aud its ! binding force upon the defendant will ' be appreciated when it is understood that the oourt had adjourned when it was made I Query, for lawyers Is the district court always in session after it adjourns ? And if so, would the judge have the right to lino us for oontcmpt in case we should in his hearing on the street inadvertantly express that contempt con-tempt of oourt which wc have hitherto so oarefutly concealed ? |