State v. Houck

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

The appellant was convicted of the crime of assault with intent to commit rape, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for ten years.

The district attorney in his argument to the jury expressed his opinion as to what the law was on a certain issue in the case, and one of the attorneys for the defendant objected' that that was not the law on the subject. The judge instructed the jury that the attorneys on either side had the right to argue the law of the case, but that the jurors should accept as the law the instruction which the judge would give in his…