Judgment reversed on the law and the facts and a new trial ordered.
The prosecutor improperly used extrinsic evidence to discredit appellant's denial that he had participated in other crimes, and referred in his summation to matter which the jury could not properly consider in its deliberations. In our opinion this deprived appellant of a fair trial (People v. Ochs,
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