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Show TO DISCHARGE JURIES AFTER 24 HOURS SACRAMENTO. Cal.. March 9. The Senate passed and sent to the Governor last night. Assemblyman Coghlan's bill fixing the time within which a Jury must be discharged after a case Is submitted to it. The bill provides that in felony cases, where the penalty fixed by law is less than life imprisonment, the court must discharge the Jury within twelve hours after it retires for deliberation. Where the punishment of death or life Imprisonment may be inflicted the Jury must be discharged after being out twenty-four hours. |