The findings of fact below are affirmed.
In our opinion, it was error (1) to permit Detective O'Donnell to "refresh" his recollection from the complaint as to a fact about which, the record indicates, he had no personal knowledge (Richardson, Evidence [9th ed.], § 479, p. 489); (2) to permit the prosecutor to question defendant about the nature of a prior assault conviction and his military training, when the obvious intent of such questioning was to show from...
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