State v. Cattana

The defendant, John Cattana, and three other parties were jointly charged with the crime of robbery. Cattana was tried separately, found guilty, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary. The ease comes before this court on defendant’s appeal from his conviction and sentence. Defendant reserved three bills of exception, which we will discuss in the order in which they appear in the record.

[I] Bill No. 1. This bill was reserved to an alleged prejudicial statement of the prosecuting attorney in his closing argument on a fact dehors the record, and the failure of the trial judge, on…