State v. Dowdy

By the Division.

In these cases the parties and their counsel stipulated and agreed that the hearings on the applications for review of the sentences in question be held before two judges and that said two judges shall render decisions on such applications. Section 51-194 of the Gfeneral Statutes provides that “[t]he chief justice shall appoint three judges of the superior court to act as a review division of said court,” and the “decision of any two of such judges shall be sufficient to determine any matter before the review division.” The question arises whether it is permissible for the…