Judgment reversed, on the law, and new trial ordered.
The findings of fact below, resulting in the conviction, are affirmed. We have examined all the arguments advanced by counsel for both sides and we reverse and order a new trial on one ground alone. Visits by three trial jurors to the scene of the critical identification of the accused made by People's witness Earomirski were so fundamentally prejudicial and violative of appellant's rights that we are constrained...
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