Lewisohn v. State

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

In this appeal by the State from the Superior Court’s granting of petitioner Lewisohn’s application for a writ of habeas corpus, the function of the Law Court is a narrow one. First, if the single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, who sat by assignment in the Superior Court,* was cor rect in finding as a fact that a woman who sat on the jury that tried and convicted petitioner for murder 2 failed to reveal on voir dire that she had already made up her mind he was guilty, the State concedes — as it obviously must — that he did not get a fair trial. Second, that…