PRATHER, Justice, for the Court:
The appeal addresses the trial judge's effort to avert a mistrial by the giving of an additional instruction to a jury deadlocked solely on the issue of defendant's guilt as to a greater or lesser offense. The defendant, Henry Mack Isom, was indicted for the willful, unlawful and felonious murder of Franklin D. Shaw.
After eight hours of deliberation and a special interrogatory issued by the Court, the jury returned a verdict...
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