Number of jurors for trial of issue in an action

For the trial of the issue in any action, the jury shall consist of nine persons and that jury may, on or after the expiration of two hours from the time when it retired to consider its verdict, return a verdict whenever it is agreed in the proportion of eight to one or seven to two, and that verdict when so delivered shall have the same effect as if the whole jury had concurred therein. 30 Juries criminal cases to