Duty of Jurors Not to Converse, etc. During Recesses

The jury shall, at each adjournment of the court before the submission of the cause to the jury, whether permitted to separate or kept in charge of officers, be admonished by the court that it is their duty not to converse among themselves or with anyone else on any subject connected with the trial, or to form or express any opinion thereon until the cause is finally submitted to them. NOTE: Section 90.43 is new; it is identical to § 1122 of the California Penal Code. See § 90.40 and note thereto. See also B. Witkin, California Criminal Procedure Judgment and Attack in Trial Court § 521 (1963, Supp. 1973).