Oklahoma § 22-853 - Custody and conduct of jury before submission - Separation

§ 22-853. Custody and conduct of jury before submission - Separation

- Sworn officer.

The jurors sworn to try an indictment or information, may, at

any time before the submission of the cause to the jury, in the

discretion of the court, be permitted to separate, or to be kept in

charge of proper officers. The officers must be sworn to keep the

jurors together until the next meeting of the court, to suffer no

person to speak to or communicate with them, nor to do so

themselves, on any subject connected with the trial, and to return

them into court at the next meeting thereof. Such officer or

officers having once been duly sworn, it is not necessary that they

be resworn at each recess or adjournment. An admonition to the

officer and the jury shall be sufficient.

R.L.1910, § 5899. Amended by Laws 1945, p. 97, § 1.