State v. Williamson

In this appeal by the defendant from his conviction of certain crimes in a trial to the jury, the only error presented is that the trial court should have granted a motion for a mistrial which was based upon the claim that the judge in the course of the trial invited the complaining witness and her mother into his chambers and there discussed with the former matters pertaining to the case and reassured her as regards her testimony as a witness. The denial of the motion, made, as it was, in the course of the trial, was an interlocutory ruling which could only be presented by a finding; State…