In a personal injury case, has a prosecution witness ever been accosted by a jury member who is not a plaintiff in the trial?

In People v. Currie, 3 Cal.App.2d 31, 33, 39 P.2d 215, on an occasion when jurors were leaving the courtroom following an adjournment, at least two of them were accosted by a female prosecution witness who had testified that she purchased stock in the same company in which it was alleged that defendant had made false representations; she pleaded with the jurors to rectify the situation, informing them that she was a widow and had lost her money; apparently, the trial judge was advised of the incident prior to submission of the case to the jury although counsel for the defense was not so advised until after the verdict had been returned and the jury discharged; defendant complained that the court erred in not admonishing the jury to disregard such remarks, and that the making of such

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