Judgment reversed, in the interests of justice, and new trial ordered.
At the trial on an indictment charging murder, defendant did not deny his participation in the slaying, although he testified that when he struggled with the decedent, Ellsworth Bishop, allegedly in self-defense, he thought his knife was pointed away from the decedent's body. The prosecution relied largely on the testimony of three witnesses, Wayne Decker, Thomas Soutar and Randolph Briggs. Each...
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