Dillon v. State

Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.

The appeal questions two judgments. One sentenced the defendant to a term of seven years in the penitentiary for burglary, the other to seventeen years for grand larceny.

Although the motion assigns as errors thirty-seven trial transactions and matters occurring after the arrest was made and prior to arraignment, emphasis here relates to hut six: (1) A mistrial should have been declared because of inflammatory remarks by prosecuting attorneys in their opening remarks and in the closing arguments; (2) the state was permitted to cross-examine the defendant’s wife on…