Hunter v. State

We deem it unnecessary to elaborate the head-notes, except in one particular. This court has frequently held that a lawyer should not be permitted to make statements of facts concerning the issues on trial, in the presence of the jury, outside of the evidence and prejudicial to the adverse side. We wish once more to state emphatically that such a practice will not be permitted. It is not only improper in a lawyer to indulge in it, but it is improper on the part of a judge to allow it to be done. If an effort is made to thus get facts before the jury, not by legal evidence, but by the bald…