Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered. No questions of fact were raised or considered.
At the close of the first day of deliberations, the trial court, noting that it was 5:00 P.M. and that the jury was still deliberating, decided to send the jury to a hotel for the evening. Without objection by the defense counsel, the Trial Judge directed a court officer as follows: "Tell them to stop and they can start deliberating once they...
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