The following excerpt is from People v. Faber , 199 N.Y. 256, 92 N.E. 674 (N.Y. 1910):
Again, quoting from Simon v. State, 108 Ala. 27, 18 South. 731, it is said: I will charge you that when you go into the jury room you may discuss the case together and compare notes and reason together, but before you make up your verdict you must make up in your mind, without reference to the other jurors, whether or not the defendant is guilty, and, if guilty, the degree in which you are to find him guilty. In short, when men are jurors they sit here as individuals, so far as their individual verdict is concerned, and the juror should be governed by his own conscience, and not by the minds and consciences of his fellow jurors.
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