Okla. Stat. tit. 12, § 12-580
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Jury may decide in court or retire - Keeping together -
Official statutory text
Communications to jury or concerning deliberations.
When the case is finally submitted to the jury, they may decide
in court or retire for deliberation. If they retire, they must be
kept together, in some convenient place, under charge of an officer,
until they agree upon a verdict or be discharged by the court,
subject to the discretion of the court, to permit them to separate
temporarily at night, and at their meals. The officer having them
under his charge shall not suffer any communication to be made to
them, or make any himself, except to ask them if they are agreed
upon their verdict, unless by order of the court; and he shall not,
before their verdict is rendered, communicate to any person the
state of their deliberations, or the verdict agreed upon.
R.L. 1910, § 5005.
When the case is finally submitted to the jury, they may decide
in court or retire for deliberation. If they retire, they must be
kept together, in some convenient place, under charge of an officer,
until they agree upon a verdict or be discharged by the court,
subject to the discretion of the court, to permit them to separate
temporarily at night, and at their meals. The officer having them
under his charge shall not suffer any communication to be made to
them, or make any himself, except to ask them if they are agreed
upon their verdict, unless by order of the court; and he shall not,
before their verdict is rendered, communicate to any person the
state of their deliberations, or the verdict agreed upon.
R.L. 1910, § 5005.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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