
    United States v. Greenwood.
    After verdict, in. assault and battery, tlie Court will permit tlie defendant to give security to abide the judgment.
    If the jury, after retiring, come into court to ask questions of a witness, the counsel will not be permitted to interrogate the witness.
    Assault and battery. ' The defendant was surrendered before trial by his bail and committed ; after verdict*he offered'to give security for fine and costs, and for abiding the judgment.
    
      Mr. Jones, for the United States,
    objected on the ground of his being in custody. But the Court overruled the objection.
   The jury, after retiring, were brought into court at their request, for the purpose of asking some' questions of a witness. The Court refused to suffer the counsel to interrogate the witness.

(Judge Fitzhugh’s Notes.)  