Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The jury's verdict on each count in the indictment must be unanimous. If the indictment includes alternate counts, the jury need only reach a verdict on one of those counts.
(2) Before the jury retires to consider its verdict on a count in the indictment, the Court must inform the jury that its verdict must be unanimous.
Jury may deliver alternative verdicts
(3) If an offence specified in a count in the indictment is an offence for which an Act allows the jury to find the accused:
(a) not guilty of the offence; but
(b) guilty of another offence;
the Court may inform the jury of this.
(4) If, in accordance with an Act referred to in subsection (3), the jury unanimously finds the accused:
(a) not guilty of an offence specified in a count in the indictment; but
(b) guilty of another offence;
the indictment is taken to have always included a count against the accused for the other offence.
Foreperson is to deliver the verdict
(5) The jury's verdict is to be delivered by the jury
foreperson.