Okla. Stat. tit. 12, § 12-580: Jury may decide in court or retire - Keeping together -

Communications to jury or concerning deliberations.

When the case is finally submitted to the jury, they may decide

in court or retire for deliberation. If they retire, they must be

kept together, in some convenient place, under charge of an officer,

until they agree upon a verdict or be discharged by the court,

subject to the discretion of the court, to permit them to separate

temporarily at night, and at their meals. The officer having them

under his charge shall not suffer any communication to be made to

them, or make any himself, except to ask them if they are agreed

upon their verdict, unless by order of the court; and he shall not,

before their verdict is rendered, communicate to any person the

state of their deliberations, or the verdict agreed upon.