State v. Smith

The record shows that the trial of this case was commenced at Darien, Connecticut, on September 16, 1964, and lasted for a period of nine court days. It was concluded on October 13,1964. The transcript contains some 1200 pages. After the trial was concluded and while the case was on appeal to the Appellate Division, the trial judge engaged in extrajudicial conduct in that he prepared and caused to be published in the January, 1965, issue of McCall’s (vol. 92, No. 4, *548p. 48), a nationally known magazine having a wide circulation, an article entitled “The Sins of the Parents,” in which he used…