need for certainty of verdicts, the need to foster open jury discussion, and the need to insulate jury value judgments from judicial review, will be compelled to yield in certain very limited occasions where human life or liberty sways in the balance.”); Setzer v. Latimer, 40 Ga. App. 247, 249 (149 SE 281) (1929) (“The general rule that the statements of jurors will not be received ... to impeach their verdict does not prevent the reception of their evidence as to what really was the verdict agreed upon, in order to prove that, through mistake or otherwise, it has not been correctly expressed, as the agreement reached by the jury, and not the written (722 SE2d 714) (2012) (“Appellant seizes on the fact that we stated that both the trial 7 Ga. at 297; see also Haynes, 245 Ga. at 819 (<HOLDING>); Kimmel, 261 Ga. at 334 (2) (holding that
holding that a defendant is barred from contending on appeal that the trial court erred in denying a mistrial motion when he acquiesced in the courts decision to give curative instructions and did not then renew his own motion for mistrial or join in his codefendants renewal of the motion holding that the granting of a mistrial due to a defect in the wording of the indictment did not prevent retrial even though the mistrial was declared after the jury was impaneled and sworn and over the objection of defendant holding that a prosecution for the same offense was barred by double jeopardy where a mistrial was declared without manifest necessity holding that trial court erred in insisting upon a mistrial as to all counts when jury had indicated that it was only hung as to one count and noting that the trial court erred because it could easily have followed the less drastic alternative of accepting the jurys verdict on the decided counts and declaring a mistrial only on the undecided count such that there was no manifest necessity to grant a mistrial punctuation omitted holding that when there was no manifest necessity for aborting a trial rather than using other less drastic remedies to cure problems in the absence of defendants motion for a mistrial the granting of a mistrial is an abuse of discretion