WILLIAMSON, Chief Justice.
Exceptions to the denial of respondent's motion for a mistrial are overruled. The respondent was convicted of murder at the May 1965 Term of the Superior Court in Penobscot County.
While the jury was examining a document, a spectator, seated in the court-room, was observed holding an issue of a Boston daily newspaper fully open on the front page of which were the words "Crime Watchdog Backed by Volpe" in bold type. For a period from...
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