494.495. Jury may separate, when--duty of court. - Missouri Statutes

Jury may separate, when--duty of court.

494.495. The court may permit the jury to separate at anyadjournment or recess of the court during the trial and jurydeliberation in all cases of misdemeanor or felony, except incapital cases. When the jurors are permitted to separate, afterbeing impaneled as provided for in sections 494.400 to 494.505,and at each adjournment the court shall admonish them that it istheir duty not to converse among themselves, nor to suffer othersto converse with them or in their hearing on any subjectconnected with the trial, or to form or express any opinionthereon, until the cause is finally submitted to them, or untilthey return to the jury room to continue their deliberations.

(L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al.)