To reduce it to a state of disagreement.
1850. They [members of the gang] had confederates on the jury, unknown to the public, who either caused their acquittal or hung the panel, not literally by the neck, as criminals are hung, but by opposing or refusing to agree to any verdict, save that of “Not Guilty.”—James Weir, ‘Lonz Powers,’ i. 142 (Phila.).
