Judgment affirmed in a memorandum. Since defendant was on trial for a misdemeanor, his absence from the courtroom could not have been in and of itself basis for declaring a mistrial (Code Crim. Pro., § 356) but, under the peculiar circumstances of this case, in which identification of defendant was critical and his absence from the courtroom may well have been contrived for purposes of appeal, the Trial Judge was privileged, in the exercise of sound discretion, to grant...
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