State v. Verde

This is a petition for a new trial under the provisions of general laws 1938, chapter 535, § 5. The petitioners were convicted in the superior court of conspiracy. They now complain that their trial was not full, fair and impartial, because the trial justice “secretly” sent a physician and two deputy sheriffs into the jury room while the jurors were there, deliberating on their verdicts; and also because he allowed the jurors, during the trial, to send and receive letters without any supervision of such letters by the court and without notice to the petitioners or their counsel.

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