People v. Blackman

THE COURT.

Defendant was convicted of a felony. Upon the hearing of the motion of defendant for a new trial two affidavits were read in its support, made hy two different persons who were present at the trial. In substance they deposed that after the court had instructed the jury, and while the-district attorney was addressing the jury, the presiding judge left the bench and the courtroom and went into another room, closed the door behind him and was absent from the courtroom about ten minutes, during which time the district attorney proceeded witli his argument to the jury upon the facts of…