WEBBER, Justice.
In 1962 the petitioner, Harold J. Clukey, was tried by a jury upon an indictment charging a felony. In the course of the trial the presiding justice concluded that certain words uttered by a witness for the State and an inquiry on the part of counsel for the State during a colloquy with the Court might improperly prejudice the minds of the jury against the then respondent. In the absence of the jury the presiding justice expressed this concern to...
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