Supreme Judicial Court of Maine March 2, 1892 (Hopkins v. Sawyer)

Peters, C. J.

The jury having been sent out in the evening, the judge, after waiting some time without their return, proclaimed a recess of the court until the next morning, instructing the officer, in charge of the jurors, to allow them to separate at one o’clock at night if at that hour they had not agreed upon a verdict.