Judgment reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and new trial ordered.
Although a trial court is granted wide latitude in controlling the conduct of a trial, here the court exercised its discretion improvidently by (1) curtailing the cross-examination of the complainant and (2) interrupting the questioning of witnesses by appellant's counsel both on direct and cross-examination. This conduct, together with certain improper and...
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