25-7-403. Conduct of jury after case submitted to it. When the case is finally submitted to the jury, it may decide in court or retire for deliberation. If the jurors retire, they must be kept together in some convenient place, under charge of an officer, until at least two-thirds of them agree upon a verdict or are discharged by the court. Unless by order of the court, the officer having them under his charge must not suffer any communication to be made to them or make any himself, except to ask them if they or two-thirds of them are agreed upon a verdict; and he must not, before their verdict is rendered, communicate to any person the state of their deliberations or the verdict agreed upon.

     History: En. Sec. 138, p. 71, Bannack Stat.; re-en. Sec. 166, p. 165, L. 1867; re-en. Sec. 206, p. 68, Cod. Stat. 1871; re-en. Sec. 256, p. 103, L. 1877; re-en. Sec. 256, 1st Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 265, 1st Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; amd. Sec. 1084, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6750, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 9353, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 613; re-en. Sec. 9353, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-5105.